Keys To an Effective, Multiplying, Joyful Ministry

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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast.
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To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com.
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And now here is Evangelist Jonathan.
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This is the last four and a half years in our ministry where um we started a church in Pittsburgh.
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I've been an evangelist for 24 years, and then December 31st, the Lord spoke to me to uh start a church in Pittsburgh, which I was nervous about that, because normally if an evangelist starts a church, the evangelistic ministry goes down and the church doesn't grow because both things take 100% of your focus.
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And I was surprised to see it grow.
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Then I had the Lord speak to me a year and a half after that to start a second one in um Fort Worth, Texas.
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Then the year after that in California, and then about five weeks after that in Arizona on five days' notice.
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And so I want to show this to you because there's a you repeat what you see in life and ministry.
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So most of us grew up in churches that didn't grow.
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It had 200, 300, 400 people when we started going, we were 11.
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And if you go back today at 25 or 30, it basically has the same crowd, give or take 100, and they're in the same building.
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I mean, you drive by churches, they've been in the same building for 80 years, 120 years, never outgrew the building.
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But the standard has to be the book of Acts.
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Say something with me.
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Daily, there was added to the church.
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Such as should be saved.
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Yeah, so when people say God has a plan for small churches too, they're correct.
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To win souls and disciple them and grow into big churches.
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There's no way for a ministry to follow the rudimentary commands of the Bible and remain where they're at.
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The first command God gave man was to be fruitful and multiply.
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And so, A, you have to know that up front, in fact, I might as well just take that as my first point.
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I want you to write down if you're taking notes, keys to an effective, multiplying, joyful ministry.
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Not just to grow, but have fun doing it.
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Keys to an effective, multiplying, joyful ministry.
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Luke 22, 35.
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Then Jesus asked the disciples, When I sent you out to preach the gospel, and you did not have money, a traveler's bag, or an extra pair of sandals, did you lack anything?
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No, they replied.
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So they had no lack.
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Go to Luke chapter 10.
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Luke chapter 10, verse 17.
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When the 72 disciples returned, they what?
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You can read it.
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Are you gonna stare me down?
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The preachers to preacher, the deadest crowds.
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Can you please answer me today?
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When the 72 disciples return, they there we go.
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Good Lord.
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You preach to preachers like you're preaching in the Soviet Union.
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How many of you are happy you're serving the Lord today?
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Good.
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All right, better.
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When the 72 disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him.
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So ministry is to be a joy.
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It's not just to be effective, it's to have fun doing it.
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That's another thing you have to break from how you grew how you grew up, because it was like par for the course.
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How's it going in the ministry?
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Oh, devil's attack, oh, you know.
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Even there was a guy I was preaching for, and I really like this guy.
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But I said I was complimenting him.
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He has started a lot of churches.
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And so they were celebrating however many uh uh churches they had started, I think 500 at that time, and they're up higher than that now.
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So I said, Brother so-and-so, that's amazing that you've started so many churches in such a short period of time, uh, you know, one lifetime.
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And he, you know, I was thinking he was gonna smile and uh say, Yeah, it's been great.
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He said, Yeah, but the thing is, when you have that many churches, you you carry the financial weight of that ministry.
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And I thought, what a miserable way to do ministry, to have a big ministry that's making impact, but you're not happy and it's a drain.
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And I think that's why some people make the decision, thanks for for that.
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Uh that's why some people make the decision to stay small, because they see people with big ministries struggling.
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One guy that I was under in the ministry um felt to go on TV and he said, I'm just hesitant to do it, because I know people that are on TV and they say, once you let that monster out of the cage, you have to continually feed it.
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They know.
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Nothing in the ministry should feel like that.
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When Jesus sends you out, when you return, it should be just like that.
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When the 72 disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him.
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Lord, even the demons obey us uh when we use your name.
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They were having success and they had fun doing it.
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My dad role modeled that for me.
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My mom role modeled that for me.
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Ministry should be fun.
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You know, I'm not you gotta reject anything that's the opposite of that.
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How we know it's hard in the ministry.
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I would not say amen.
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Amen means so be it unto me.
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I would receive that I'm gonna have a great time in the ministry and make great impact for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And that's why the Lord has you here today.
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You're gonna have an impactful ministry and you're gonna have fun doing it.
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The devil's gonna be the only one crying, and you're gonna be laughing in his face in Jesus' name.
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If you believe it, can you say amen?
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So, this video you're about to see is a testament to the um the supernatural power of God if you get in the in the right flow.
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You have to be shooting for the right target.
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If your target's to babysit 150 people and you you've used some excuse, we're in a small town or whatever.
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There's a pastor, I wish I could morph him here.
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His name's Pastor Matt Ward in uh Charleston, Maine.
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That town has about 660 people, and he has 900 people on Sunday.
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And uh you don't have to you don't have to drop the level of what you're doing to where you live.
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Can you say amen?
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You can go to God's standard and then never allow yourself to have a mindset that's rooted in pride.
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You know, I pastor in a little town in Vermont.
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I just wish the Lord had called me to Texas.
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We could have so much of a bigger ministry.
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As if God's into squandering your talents.
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He's not.
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Wherever God has stationed you, you're anointed to grow in that place.
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And I see you doing that from today.
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Can you say amen?
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So here's a look at the last four and a half years just to show you what's possible with no backers, no, you know, no Southern Baptist Convention committing$10 million to what we're doing or anything.
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This is all just faith and hearing God and doing what he said, and what God does for one, he'll do for anybody.
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Take a look.
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We're going to announce the launch of Revival Today Church.
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We're going to hold Holy Ghost church services.
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We're going to give you and your family a place you can go that's a soul-winning church that values the presence of God.
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I'm telling you the Holy Ghost.
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When you think of the people into this town, hundreds of cars parked on the other side of this fence.
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They're holding away.
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I don't have this as a point, but I want you to write it in your notes.
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Say, learn to navigate challenges.
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Many people use one challenge they've hit as the reason they're done.
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And they can be very legitimate challenges.
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We lost the child.
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That's devastating.
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That's not something to take lightly.
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But when things come in life, and I'm not saying you, I'm talking about serious things.
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You saw that's three properties in 18 months.
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So we got sued at the one place, sued at the second place, sued at the third place.
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So I could be sitting with 120 people saying we used to have 600, but then the city sued us.
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And no, you have to say, write this down and say this out loud.
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Never mistake a challenge for a defeat.
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When challenges come, God gives you power to navigate forward.
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Never let something that happens be an excuse to take backward steps.
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Can you say amen?
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Continue.
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It is expected to bring thousands to encounter the council.
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Revival today church wants to be a few.
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People this church will be a place of healing.
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This church will be a place where people find peace and healing and strength and health.
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A home of sanctuary.
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Hallelujah.
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Okay, you say amen?
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So that's it, that's in four and a half years.
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So when you read Amos 9 13, the day is coming, says the Lord, where the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that sows seed, that's a real thing.
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I mean, that's probably a hundred years of ministry work in four and a half years, but that's what the Holy Ghost helps you to do.
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So how come it doesn't happen for everybody?
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Because people have been taught the opposite.
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Ministry's hard, you know, you got to balance family, a bunch of stuff that's not in the Bible.
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So I wanted to do today keys.
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This is a new message.
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I know they say evangelists have six messages and travel, but now I have seven.
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Keys to an effective, multiplying, joyful ministry.
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And these are not in particular order.
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Number one, utilize social media.
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If I were to pull up your social media right now, it likely sucks.
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I can't tell you how many people, when I look, like I'll see a pastor online, I'll want to know where he pastors.
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I can't find the name of his church, I can't find the address that he's at, I can't find anything about him.
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You know, if you're a pastor, maybe you don't have as your profile, Georgia Bulldogs fan.
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Let's make America great again.
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Okay, great.
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What are you?
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You know, when you utilize social media, you saw that sports radio host in uh interviewing me because the city ran a campaign to take me out.
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The the city of Pittsburgh sued me.
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I think still they sent a letter that it's illegal for our church people to use Pittsburgh public parking.
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They they they they wanted our church run out of town.
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Well, unfortunately for them, I have a bigger social media than the news stations have.
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And so um they would do a story and they'd get a two or three positive comments in favor, and then they'd have some of you that are here like Kevin Mercer, 300 nut cases that follow me that made them sorry they ever posted anything negative.
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There was a guy that was starting a church, I can't remember what state, I think Florida.
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And um I follow him on social media.
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He's probably 35.
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He announced me and my wife were starting a church, so I went to share it, you know, just to give him a boost.
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If anybody's living in that part of Florida, they could check his church out.
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And when I went to share it, it said, You are unable to share this profile.
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So I looked and he was private.
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And I messaged him.
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I said, I tried to share your church launch, but it's on your social media's on private, so I can't share it.
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You know, if you're here and you're in the ministry and your social media is on private, what's the matter with you?
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Your your ability to have a private life ended when you answer the call of God.
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And if you go high enough, you're gonna have death threats, possibly hundreds of death threats, and you don't have to worry about them.
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The people that actually kill you never message you ahead of time.
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So you can always rule those people out.
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Um, you know, all that stuff, putting a heart over your baby's face or a smiley face over your child's face.
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Who do you think you're Brad and Angelina Jolie and people want to kidnap your child?
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You know, I don't I don't know what's with people.
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If you're gonna be in ministry, you can't want to be in ministry and be private.
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Jesus wasn't private, Jesus was very public.
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And you should have a message that you're looking to get out.
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I would look, I just called a staff meeting, I don't think it was uh videoed, it wasn't, but I called a staff meeting the last time I was home, it was the first staff meeting I had in like six months.
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My wife does one for 10 minutes every day, 10 to 15 minutes, but I don't handle that part of the ministry.
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But I said what I'm saying to you, and I haven't I I don't mean anybody here in particular, but I said, all of your social media sucks.
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I said, all of you, with very few exceptions, are very interesting people.
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And online, you're boring and inconsistent.
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You know, if you're a youth pastor, why not build your social media?
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Why not put things that the Lord's speaking to your heart about youth?
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Build it.
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You can use that to invite people.
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Did anybody see our media in in Toronto, Ontario, a few weeks ago in Canada?
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Anyone?
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Any facial expression?
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Anyone breathing?
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If someone died, the paramedics would have to clear out three rows before they found out who the corpse was today.
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Did anybody see our meeting in Toronto?
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Yes or no?
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Okay, we had a 300-seater booked and 440 people showed up.
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That meeting was announced 15 days ahead of time with Instagram.
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You can don't worry about that, baby.
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I'm happy somebody's making noise and alive in here.
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Um how did we do that meeting?
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By an Instagram reel.
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I'm gonna be in Toronto.
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And you know what?
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Any pastor that doesn't want me there doesn't have the power to stop me because he hasn't developed his social media and he doesn't have any kind of presence.
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If you value what God's called you to do, there was a day, not a hundred years ago or 50 years ago, when I got out of Bible school uh 24 years ago.
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If you wanted to have any type of broadcast, there was no YouTube live, there was no Facebook live, you had to have cameras that cost about$80,000 a piece used, and you had to have TV time at about$50,000 a half hour, and you needed a production studio that would cost easily, on the low end,$750,000.
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It was impossible.
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Now to have the ability to turn your phone on and hit record and get a message out.
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And I know I was talking to uh my nephew, Pastor Jay, who was one of the people I was including, that you're very interesting, you have good things to say, you have one of the largest youth groups in the in the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast.
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You had your own youth camp that had 490 teenagers, and you're non-existent on social media.
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I don't understand you.
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And he said, one of the things with me was I saw so many people that are annoying on facial on social media that it made me not want to do it.
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Well, I understand that.
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And that's an overarching principle that you're gonna have to get past in all ministry.
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I've watched people take offerings that make me want to never take an offering again.
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Till people bring an envelope up here.
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I'm not going out with the service.
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Ushers block the doors.
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You don't want to be grouped in with them.
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So when you watch people do it wrong, then you you're like, okay, I'm gonna ease up on the offerings.
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But you can't let the devil show you people that are doing things wrong and get you not to do it at all.
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How many of you have ever heard people do an altar call to get saved under coercion and there was no anointing on it, and they kept pounding it until people that were saved just said, okay, I'll come forward if you'll just stop giving the altar call.
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Anybody?
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Yeah, but you can't let that get you to quit doing what Billy Graham did and Billy Sunday did and calling people to Christ.
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So you see a lot of people that are obnoxious on social media, but don't let that keep you from doing it.
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I was talking to uh uh uh uh one of my younger cousins that's in the ministry, and he was one of the ones I told it.
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We're in a group text with me and a bunch of people, and he's super interesting in the group text, and he's got like great insight on things.
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And I said to him, why is your social media, why do you put all this in the group text and your social media's got nothing?
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You tweet like one time every three months.
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You're very interesting in real life, and in public you're boring.
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You people shouldn't have to be your best friend to know what you have to say.
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And social media in the ministry, you should use all means to get the gospel out, and all means to communicate with people.
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There's people, I was telling my nephew, I said, there's youth pastors all over the country that are looking for insight, and basically the only people they can find it from are non-spirit-filled people because people like you won't talk.
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Well, he he started now, and then a bunch of my staff started doing it.
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If you're on church staff, develop your social media, you can use that to bring people to church, you can bring that to promote your church.
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Why would you not value that?
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And I'm telling you, I'm not doing this just as a first point.
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If I were to check your social media after today and it's still on private and you still don't post anything, when you do it's about University of Kentucky basketball, which there's nothing wrong with that.
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But a thought is if you're in the ministry, every once in a while, mention God.
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Mention the Bible, mention Christ, mention healing, mention something that that's ministry related, and then when people see it and say, I like what she posted.
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I never thought of that before.
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Who is she?
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What do they see when they when they click on your profile?
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Now, as after last night, if you click on mine, it says black and blessed.
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So I'm kind of violating my own rule.
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But before that, it told about me.
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Pastor of Revival Today Churches in uh Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, or Santa Anna, and um and Phoenix.
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And so people want to find out about you.
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Don't write weird things that only hyper prophetic people understand.
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I like this lady.
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Who is she?
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And in your profile pictures, you as a warrior with a cross breastplate on, a prophetic warrior for the Lord, decapitating demons.
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Okay, I'm gonna find someone else.
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Think about people that'll click on your profile.
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Think about car dealership people, think about people, just regular people that are looking and want to know about who you are.
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You know, I'll give you an example.
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This is a strange example, but it happened.
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I play a game on um Xbox called MLB the Show 26, which I didn't bring my Xbox with me this week, and I've been getting a lot more sleep.
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I feel great.
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You see how crank I am with sleep?
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Imagine if I had my Xbox with me, people would be getting eviscerated today.
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So there's a guy on X, formerly Twitter, that he creates custom baseball stadiums on that game that you can download.
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So I messaged him and said, I'm not very good at pitching on that game.
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So I said, Can you make a park that's a uh a major pitcher's park that has low elevation so the ball doesn't carry high fences and super deep dimensions?
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And so he made one.
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He said, I will.
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Then he posted, this is I named this Shuttlesworth Field after the person that did it, put it online.
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Then I looked and I had a private message from him.
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And he messaged me, and now I've said too much, so I I gotta be very vague because I'm not gonna reveal what he said privately.
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But he said, Um, I looked you up your profile and I saw your books and I watched your YouTube message.
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I'm going through a problem right now in life, and your message really helped me.
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Um, what book would you recommend of yours to read?
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I've been interested in getting back to uh uh into church and with Jesus Christ.
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And so that's social media.
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There's a whole world out there where you can touch people that you never would meet, and you leave it completely ignored.
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Now, now that I'm on social media, I'm not an expert on it, but I'll tell you a few things about it.
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I remember reading before that for every call to action, you need to have 11 other posts, like an 11 to 1.
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So, in other words, if all your posts are come to our Wednesday night service, come to our Friday night service, come to our Sunday service, then no one's gonna follow you because you're not providing any value, you're just barking commands like I'm doing today.
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But if if if you put up, like I'll put up my sermon notes, all the kinds of stuff that preachers charge for now, just put up, you know, put them out for free.
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When I do a sermon, especially if I do one that I didn't get a chance to preach.
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Like last night I had 12 points, I didn't get to point one.
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So I I post it on there, and then Pastor says, Thank you.
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You know, I use that as my study guide and preach you know, seven reasons Jesus heals, 10 ways God gave us power over the devil, stuff like that.
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Provide value and content for people, and people will start coming back, just like you follow people that you've never met, but you like what they provide for you from that standpoint.
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Don't let I want to ask you this.
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I'm not just saying this like to fill time.
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What how is your Instagram?
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Is it private?
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Do you have a bio?
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Is there something to click on?
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How is your church website?
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If I went on your church website right now, do I have to dig to find out who the pastor is?
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People want to know who the pastor is.
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Do I have to dig to find the address?
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I'd love to come to your church.
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There's no address.
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You want me to just pray in tongues?
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There's a guy that um we don't really talk that much anymore because he got mad at me.
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But we went to Bible school together, and I used to rate on his posts all the time because he'd rate like I mean literally, this would be his post.
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Preaching in Ghana this week, you know, Ghana, West Africa.
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Preaching in Ghana this week.
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Come join me.
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So I'd rate, just flew to Ghana, praying in tongues to see where meeting location is.
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There was nothing to click on, nowhere to find it.
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You know, have your church address prominent, have you prominent, have some kind of what when you get on the first page, what is your church about?
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What do you preach?
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What are your core doctrines?
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Tell about your church.
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Don't have some lame generic thing.
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We are a church of uh, we are a community of Christians dedicated to loving.
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Our community.
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Okay, so is every other church.
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What sets your church apart?
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Tell about it.
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In like 35 seconds, 60 seconds.
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Hello, I'm Pastor Jonathan of Revival Today Church.
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We call it a home of signs and wonders.
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This is a place that when you come this Sunday, you can expect God to change your life.
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I look for something like that.
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Let people know who you are.
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Utilize your social media.
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And then I read something, um, I can't remember the guy's name.
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I just Tessa, can you shout through the glass?
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Who's that guy that I just started following on X that I told all you guys to start following?
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The young guy that does social media stuff?
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The glass is like FBI glass.
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Uh yes, what is it?
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Brady Shear.
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Brady Shear.
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He's got great content.
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And he said something that I had just told our staff.
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I said, you are on the social media that you like.
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And so it's like you'll hear people, I don't like Twitter, or I don't like X, I don't like uh Facebook.
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I don't like Facebook either.
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I don't like Instagram.
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Um, so I I I'm on this.
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There's an audience on every one of those platforms.
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I don't have TikTok, I don't understand TikTok, I don't like TikTok, but my daughter is on it and lots of her age group.
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So to leave any of those major platforms untouched is a huge mistake.
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Don't be an old person that's on the thing you like and I don't understand any of the new things.
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That's why, and this is a side point, I would always keep people on my staff if I were you that are between the ages of 17 and 20.
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Because even at 30, people are like kind of time, you know, they're they're into their thing and their thing only.
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It's great to hear anybody making noise.
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Um, so keep when you keep young people that like Tessa, you know, she's she's a little older than that, but she just started doing us live on TikTok, and we have a bunch of people watching on TikTok, and now it's starting to generate income and generate partners.
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Think of this.
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If 80 people show up tonight and the crowd goes, say there's a huge rainstorm and hardly anyone shows up, there's still gonna be 1,100 people watching online, and no meeting is a waste.
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Grow your social media, grow your live stream.
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What's your church live stream like?
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Do you have some guy turn on a wide camera from the back, it's not focused, you walk out of the shot, the audio sucks.
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Watch your stuff.
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It does excellence, has nothing to do with money, it's a mentality.
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Have your audio turned up and right, have the camera, have somebody follow you with the camera.
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You know, you got some churches like you're watching the guy preach on a deer stand camera.
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And actually, a deer stand camera is clear now.
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If I was in a worse mood, I would put people's live streams up that I'm talking about.
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It's like, where did you what are you filming your church service with a Nokia razor?
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The thing is like grainy, unfocused.
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If you don't take your ministry seriously, why should God take it seriously?
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God will meet you at the level of how seriously you take your own thing.
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Can you say amen?
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Number one, develop your social media.
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These are not in order.
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Number two, this is obviously more important.
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Don't sidestep prayer and fasting.
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Mark chapter 9, verse 29.
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But I'm telling you, you can fast and prayer all you want.
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If your social media is horrific, you're gonna undo what God wants to do.
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You have to present the gospel.
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You have to and make everything excellent.
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And he said unto them, This kind cometh not forth, this kind cometh forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting.
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Let me see Acts 13, 1 and 2 in the New Living Translation.
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Acts 13, 1 and 2.
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Among the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch of Syria were Barnabas, Simeon, I'm not gonna call him that, Lucius, Menaeon, the childhood companion of King Herod, Antipas, and Saul.
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Verse 2.
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One day as these men were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Appoint Barnabas and Saul for the special work that I've called them.
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So Saul was nothing when Jesus met him.
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Then he went and studied for a while.
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Then we see him among the companies of prophets and teachers, which again, when people say pastor and teacher is the same gift, it's not because it's separate there.
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Prophets and teachers, and then Paul became what at the end?
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What gift?
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Are there preachers here?
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What gift did Paul finish?
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It's not a trick question.
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Apostle, I'm not asking you how deep the lake of Galilee was or whatever.
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So many, very few times do you finish in ministry where you start?
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So you can take what's open to you when you're 20, 23, 25, and then as you as you do well with what God gives you, he gives you more.
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Can you say amen?
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Because Saul was didn't start as an apostle, he started as a among the company of teachers and prophets.
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And then how did a grace come upon him to do more?
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As he was worshiping the Lord and fasting.
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Fasting is a a platform for divine promotion.
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Fasting makes you a spiritual person that carries weight on your preaching and your praying.
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I can tell when I hear somebody pray whether they fast and pray.
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And you can tell when you hear a lot of people pray in church, that's the first time they've prayed since the last time they were asked to pray.
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Oh God, as we come here today, we just thank you, Lord, that as we see the rain falling, we're reminded of the rain of your grace that falls upon us.
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And as the flowers grow in May, so we're reminded of the blooming of your promises in our lives.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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You know, I was at the rededication, I feel like the Lord separated us geographically because we would have got kicked out of school.
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Because you like to laugh, and I like to make people laugh.
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So when I was at the rededicate America thing, some people that you heard pray, they had a sheet and read it, and you could just tell there's nothing in their spirit.
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And then other people got up and let it rip.
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And you could tell they had something in their spirit from America.
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I found it interesting because Jensen Franklin's such a down the middle, polished guy, but he believes in fasting and prayer.
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And when I asked him when I was interviewing him, I said a lot of people attack fasting now.
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So what would you say to the modern minister that says that's not really necessary?
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He said, Anybody that says that's a fool.
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I thought, that's my man right there.
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Yeah, you have to fast and pray.
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And if you're a young minister, especially, I didn't hit anybody, but if you're starting out in the ministry, you should.
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Kenneth Hagin fasted every Monday and Wednesday for the first 20 years of his ministry.
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He'd stay at the church and study and fast Monday and Wednesday.
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T.L.
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Osborne went from being a missionary to India that had no one get saved in two years, then came back and fasted because he was so frustrated and asking the Lord, what do I got to do?
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Had an encounter with God on that fast, and then lit the world on fire.
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Fasting turns you into a spiritual person.
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Fasting deadens the flesh.
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The number one blockage to the anointing is not the devil, it's that you have this glorious treasure hidden where?
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Earth and vessels.
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Fasting brings the earthen vessel to its lowest point, and then prayer stirs your spirit where there's a breaking forth.
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There's more miracles when you fast and pray.
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Because your flesh, you know, it's interesting.
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If I go a decent amount of time without fasting and prayer, that's when you want to preach on like nine keys to success in the home.
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And it's like mental messages.
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But when you fast and pray, that's where you'll get started to come into a meeting and talk about uh uh uh casting the devil out or breaking the power of addiction over you come with a different force in fasting and prayer.
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Young Icho would back me up, Lester Summerall would back me up, Smith Wigglesworth would back me up.
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Fast at your people say, I don't believe in fasting and prayer.
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I know, I've seen your ministry, I believe you.
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I want to be correcting people like Oral Roberts and A.A.
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Allen when you've never had any blind people healed, any deaf people healed.
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Let me play that guy from Milwaukee from last year.
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This guy watched me on YouTube, saw that I was in Milwaukee, and came to the meeting at this church that Pastor Josh Waldock is starting.
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And um, this is abnormal for me.
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He came for it to get saved, first time in church.
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He was a factory worker that had lost his hearing, which I didn't know.
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And I'm telling you, as I was praying the sinner's prayer, I walked by him and knew he was deaf.
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And then, second, it was like before I knew what I was doing.
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I was like, oh, he's deaf.
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Let's make him hear.
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And like flipping a switch.
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I don't.
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That's the kind of stuff that happens when you fast and pray.
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That veil of flesh and your mind being king and everything carnal.
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I guarantee you, no one has ever on a fast decided to do a series on church at the movies.
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Those decisions are made at steakhouses.
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Those decisions are made at boardroom tables with the church staff, with a box of donuts and everybody eating.
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Nobody has ever gone on a three-day fast praying in tongues.
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Yes, what's that, Lord?
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You want me to show the movie Cars and teach from it?
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I'm yours to command.
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No.
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When you don't fast and pray, you become, and you won't realize it, but other people can tell, you become a carnal preacher who just does not carry weight and you expose yourself to trouble.
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But when you fast and pray, you become godlike.
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You go past the veil of the flesh and become a God-producing person in your ministry.
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I want to challenge you to routinely fast.
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Once a week, minimum.
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Twice a week would be good, especially if you're young.
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It sets you into a mode in the ministry that'll set you apart from your peers.
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And that's what I guess that we have to pay per minute to have the scriptures up on the screen, but that's what you see in Acts 13, verse 2.
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One day, as these men were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Appoint Barnabas and Saul for the special work that I've called them.
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There's a promotion that comes on your life.
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I heard Bishop David Oyadepo say this when I went to go see him in New York.
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He pastors the largest church in the world.
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He said, Jesus is the master shepherd.
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He's the great shepherd.
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You are an under-shepherd.
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And Jesus loves the sheep so much that he won't give them to somebody who doesn't know what they're doing.
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So if you don't allow God to mold you into the right kind of ministry, you can believe for growth, you can attend church girls' conferences, but this is what he said.
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Now think of this.
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Because I used to be in the other school of thought.
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You know, when you start understanding faith and power, it's like, well, I'm just gonna speak to every mountain, tell it to move.
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But then he said this if your daughter was seven years old and she wanted to bring eight friends to church and she had a plan to take them, would you give her the keys to your car to pick them up?
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No.
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Even though her intentions are good and what she wants to do is right, she can't drive, and she's gonna cause them, she'll probably kill all eight people once she picks them up.
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He said, So it is with Christ.
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You can have a desire to reach your community, but if you have not developed your spiritual capacity and your integrity, he's not gonna entrust sheep to you that you're gonna beat and abuse.
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So fasting and prayer, everybody say this: oh Lord, increase my capacity today.
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And he will.
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He'll make you stronger, he'll increase your spirit, he'll increase the strength of your spirit as you fast and pray.
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Here's like the kind of stuff that happens in fasting and prayer.
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Go ahead.
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So that's what you get when you fast and pray.
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You'll just be preaching and see something, and uh it'll take the service to another level.
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I'll show you what happens when you you know, Paul said in fastings often.
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So what was his ministry like?
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Let me see Acts 14, verse 8.
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NLT.
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While they were at Leicester, Paul and Barnabas came upon a man with crippled feet.
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He had been that way from birth, so he had never walked.
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So then he's got atrophied, what the slings called wheelchair legs.
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His legs never developed.
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He was sitting and listening as Paul preached, looking straight at him, Paul realized he had faith to be healed while he was preaching.
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So when I started our church in California, there was a pastor there that took a shot at me on social media.
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He said, These guys that say you in row two, God wants to heal you, he said, How come they never, how come they don't go to the hospital and do that in every room?
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And I wrote back to him, You seem like an intelligent person.
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If I went to every hospital room and started commanding people to be well, how many rooms do you think I'd make it to before I was handcuffed and escorted out for trespassing?
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You idiot.
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So to make it like it's an unscriptural ministry to call people out while you're preaching, you don't have you've never read the ministry of Paul.
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He was listening as Paul preached, mid-preaching.
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Paul looked at him and realized he had faith to be healed and called to him in a loud voice, stand up.
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And the man jumped to his feet and started walking.
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So that's the type of things that happen when you fast and pray that'll balloon your church.
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People are sick.
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Many people are very sick.
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And there's no ministry to the sick at their church.
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Most churches don't even attempt it.
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There's no prayer for the sick ever.
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And then the ones that do, it's like a head nod to what Jesus said to do.
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Almost like how people do altar calls because they know they're supposed to.
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Before we go today, real quick, is there anybody that needs to give their life to the Lord?
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Anyone at all?
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No?
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Okay.
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Fathers, we go our separate ways.
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So there's no push for it.
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You're just doing it.
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And people do that with the sick.
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Before we go on on the service, we're going to take some time.
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If anybody needs to pray, you come to the altar real quick.
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We have some prayer partners who have never gotten anybody healed in 21 years that are here to pray for you.
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And so you help people to feel better in the church because they got prayer, but they don't get healed.
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But I'm going to tell you something.
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Acts chapter 5 tells you that healing is a major intake valve for the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Can you say amen?
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Praise God.
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I quit smoking two days ago and I'm almost have it all out of my chest.
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Healing is a major intake valve for the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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You can read it in Acts chapter 5.
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So if you sidestep fasting and prayer, you're going to end up sidestepping healing, and you're going to end up sidestepping praying for people to receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost.
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And spiritual things grow a church.
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I'm going to tell you, I'm not bragging on me, but to have 1,100 people coming every Sunday after four years in one location, 500 in another, 400 in California, and 200 in our baby church in Arizona that just got a pastor, that's supernatural.
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And the way it happened was by the supernatural power of God.
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We put on a billboard, Revival Today Church, a home, not the home, a home of signs and wonders.
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And God met us there.
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God did signs and wonders and is doing signs and wonders.
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Easter, there was a visitor that came and gave her life to the Lord.
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And even the way that I gave the altar call was spiritual.
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I said, when you receive Jesus, he's gonna heal you from the inside out.
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And she waited after for me and said, What is this?
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I've never felt anything like this.
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I feel better.
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I don't feel like my old self.
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This is wonderful.
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That's real Bible salvation.
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That's the power of God under salvation, saving everyone who believes.
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This is not a lecture.
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This is not religious ideals, this is the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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And to do it right, you got to fast and pray.
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Or you're gonna be a boring, loserly, powerless person.
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But when you do it right, you become an interesting, effective, powerful person.
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And word starts to get out.
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Do you got Greg that came with an MS with a cane?
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This guy had MS that was progressing through his body, and his one side of his body didn't work anymore.
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He was numbing his feet and walked with a cane with great difficulty.
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And he waited after for me and said, Excuse me, I'm supposed to be healed today.
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I said, Okay.
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So I prayed for him.
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And then he went out under the power, got up, tossed the usher's cane, and walked off.
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I said, How did you come here today?
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He said, Uh, my cousin told me when I told him about my bad medical report that I should come.
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And uh I said, Who's your cousin?
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Or what church does he go to?
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He said, My cousin doesn't go to church.
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I said, Then how did he tell you to come here?
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He said, We'd he had heard from other people about people getting healed here.
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And when I got my bad medical report, he said, You should go to that church, you'll get healed.
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So he didn't come to the church to attend, he came to get healed.
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And when there was no prayer for the sick, he said, Excuse me, I'm supposed to get healed today.
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And he got just what he expected.
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Your churches are gonna start to get a reputation from today that when you go there, cancer dies.
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When you go there, you get healed.
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Your evangelistic ministries are gonna get reputations that when you go to that guy's meetings, you have an encounter with the power of God.
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Can you say amen?
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Here's this guy, first day in church.
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My name is Greg.
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I came from uh Greensburg, PA.
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Plus, this you see the skull tattoo on his hand.
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So he's a first timer.
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And he drove two hours.
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Keep going.
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This morning for the first time over to this church.
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Uh, my cousin actually told me about this gentleman who is quite the uh minister here.
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See, I he doesn't use church trotted in here using a cane because I had an S.
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This gentleman uh over here across the way, who's off camera right now, uh, saw me walk in here and found me after the sermon and introduced me to the pastor, and immediately I can actually feel my toes.
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I can feel my feet.
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I no longer need this thing.
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It is just absolute joyous that I can just actually know I can feel my toes and my feet.
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Like it is crazily crazy.
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I love it.
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Love it.
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Wednesday he was there with his uh two daughters and somebody else and walked them down to the altar to give their life to the Lord.
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If you want your church to grow, get people healed.
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Getting people healed doesn't mean preaching on healing, though you preach on healing to get people healed.
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It means get people healed.
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Have actual healings.
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And if you preach on it, you'll have it because God watches over his word to confirm it.
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And then we get the testimonies.
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Play the testimonies, rub it in the face of the devil.
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Miracle testimonies are like a middle finger to the devil.
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Pop them up.
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Can you say amen?
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Remind him of what a failure is and remind him of how powerful Jesus Christ is.
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Don't sidestep fasting and prayer.
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Number three, can I get the scripture?
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I forgot to look it up.
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It's in Timothy.
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I think it's in 1 Timothy 2, but I could be wrong.
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Number three, refuse to be entangled in civilian affairs.
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This is a military town, so you should get this.
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What is it?
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2 Timothy 2, is it around verse 5?
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2 Timothy 2, 2.
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Thank you.
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Or 2 3.
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Verse 4.
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Soldiers don't get tied up in the affairs of civilian life, for then they cannot please the officer who enlisted them.
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Anybody that talks to you in the ministry about a work-life balance is your enemy.
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There's no such thing.
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How many your family's your first ministry?
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Oh, yeah?
00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:49.599
Is that what the verse?
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And unless you hate your wife, hate your mother, hate your father, and hate your children, you can't be my follower.
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Your interpretation is your family's before Christ?
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It's getting quiet.
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But I grew up preaching in New England, so you ain't gonna bother me.
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Yeah.
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We need devil work-life balance.
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So many times people have thrown away their families on the altar of ministry.
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Bull crap.
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People have blamed ministry for the fact that they're a crappy father and husband.
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But nobody has ever lost giving themselves to the ministry.
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If you add up my dad's schedule, he was gone nine of the first 11 years of my life.
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He wasn't gone nine out of 11 years straight.
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But if you add it up, he preached Sunday through Friday, would drive home right after service Friday night, get in at like six in the morning, spend Saturday with us, and go out again.
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That's why I've been in rehab many times.
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You can blame that if you want.
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Let me tell you something.
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If you're over the age of 14, turn the page and grow up.
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Let alone if you're 40 and 5.
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My dad was never around.
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Yeah, you're 60.
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If you're not careful.
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You're gonna be so focused on mistakes your parents made that you're gonna be 70 years old and have never done anything for anybody else because you're still dealing with your childhood half a century later.
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May God free you of all of that today.
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Turn the page and make up your mind.
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Whatever my parents did, they got me out of the house alive.
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I was watching Forensic Files and I called my mom after I finished the episode.
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I said, Thanks for not killing me when I was an infant.
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She said, Are you okay?
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I said, I just watched forensic files.
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Some lady killed her two-year-old child.
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And so I couldn't have defended myself at two.
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You got me out of the house alive and fed and clothed.
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I can take it from here.
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My parents never bought me a car.
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Well, deal with it.
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So did 90% of the world's parents.
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The average human being in the world still drives an ox cart.
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That's a fact.
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You should go overseas and you'll be much more appreciative of what you had.
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Can you say amen?
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:03.599
Quit blaming your parents.
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So soldiers don't get tied up in the affairs of civilian life.
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For they then they cannot please the officer who enlisted them.
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You think I can do you think I can start four churches and do uh revival meetings during the week or crusades if I'm also the assistant coach on my daughter's softball team?
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:22.800
No.
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So if you're gonna be a minister, be a minister.
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Be a full-time minister.
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Be on call for the Lord all the time.
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Doesn't mean you can't have any hobbies.
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:35.199
My wife's up in northern Ontario fishing and hunting right now.
00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:38.480
You should you should get away and do things.
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:43.519
But you can't have, where you're uh, I mean, I had a I had a friend in the ministry.
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:56.320
The pastor called him on Saturday morning and said, We didn't think my daughter's softball team would advance, but she did, and she has a playoff game today, and if they win, the championship will be tomorrow, Sunday.
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So um I won't be there, but my associate will be.
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:02.400
I mean, you know, that guy doesn't have a church now.
00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:09.199
If Calcy would have given me betting odds, I'd have bet$100,000 he wouldn't have a church anymore.
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:10.159
It's a guarantee.
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:12.480
I've been around those schmucks my whole life.
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That they're they're they're they pastor to get a check, or I don't know why they're pastoring.
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:22.159
They're pastoring a lot of people are in the ministry because they don't want to work.
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.519
And when you're in the ministry, you should work hard.
00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:26.639
Paul said so.
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:28.719
It's just a different kind of work.
00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:35.920
It's not painting or building, it's the work of the ministry and the work of sowing the word of God.
00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:37.440
Can you say amen?
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:48.480
You can't go to Puff Daddy's parties in Dallas if you're out building more churches.
00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:55.519
You don't sleep with Bathsheba if in the season when kings go to war, you also go to war.
00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:00.239
In the season when kings went to war, David said, That's enough ground we've taken.
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I'm staying back.
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And you lay around and you get yourself into trouble.
00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:08.000
You join country clubs and you go to social events.
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:13.360
There's a guy, I hope he's not watching, I doubt he is, but he he's a he he works with our ministry.
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:14.480
He's on salary.
00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:19.280
And he's always calling me, you know, uh, they're having a dinner at Mara Largo.
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:20.800
Um, I got you an invitation.
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:22.239
I said, I'm not going.
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:24.159
I preach every day.
00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:29.760
I know all your friends in the ministry in semi-retirement mode and going to dinners and going to functions.
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:30.480
I'm not here.
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:35.119
I just got asked, you know, again, if I wasn't being recorded, I could say a lot more.
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:37.760
You know, we're having an event to do this.
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:39.199
We would like you to be one of the speakers.
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:40.960
I don't do events where I'm one of the speakers.
00:47:41.119 --> 00:47:48.960
I go to a church with a pastor I believe in and invest in that place and then go build churches for God.
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:51.920
I'm not in semi-ministry mode.
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.079
I'm not a podcast guest.
00:47:56.159 --> 00:47:58.239
Our church's ministry, our incomes down.
00:47:58.400 --> 00:47:59.199
Um, yeah.
00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:02.239
There's not a lot of money in being a free podcast guest.
00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:03.920
That's not what God called you to do.
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Go you into all the world and appear on people's podcasts and discuss ministry.
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Say this with me.
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:14.159
There's a difference between doing ministry and discussing ministry.
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Say this.
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:21.519
There's a difference between having a revival and talking about revival.
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:27.920
Some people have free, uh, full preaching schedules, but all they do is talk about revivals.
00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:36.800
You know, I've I've noticed as I've traveled that the one of the keys to have revival, seeing as you're in a church right now to have revival, why not have revival?
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Instead of discuss it.
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:43.280
A lot of pastors, not even that are 70 or 80, that are like 40, five.
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They don't give sermons.
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:46.960
They're like giving their eulogy.
00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:54.719
You know, I started pastoring 20 years ago and we noticed a lot of hurts, and uh, my wife and I have had challenges.
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:58.800
Excuse me, are there gonna be sandwiches served after this as we lay your body to rest?
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:02.800
Why are you telling us it's not a testimony, it's not driving anything.
00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:08.320
You have, without realizing it, you have joined civilian life and you preach on Sunday.
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:12.559
But your passion to build the kingdom of God exited a long time ago.
00:49:12.719 --> 00:49:15.679
But you will never lose that passion from today.
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:27.440
That passion will grow and grow and grow, and you'll build churches and you'll build evangelistic crusades, and God will use you to bulldoze the gates of hell in Jesus' name.
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.159
If you believe it, give the Lord a mighty hand clap and shout.
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:36.239
Refuse to be entangled in civilian affairs.
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:45.199
I can't tell you the last wedding I was at.
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:47.840
I'll probably never beat another one besides my daughters.
00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:50.079
I don't go to funerals.
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:53.599
All the stuff you're supposed to do as a pastor.
00:49:53.760 --> 00:49:55.920
You don't see Jesus or Peter doing much of it.
00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:01.280
You don't see Peter in a little league game.
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Or whatever they played in Israel.
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Stone the false prophet to death, or whatever they did for very violent culture.
00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:17.599
I had uh I had somebody invite me to their birthday party.
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:18.559
I texted back.
00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:20.880
I don't even go to my daughter's birthday party.
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:25.519
I've missed her last two on the road preaching, just like my dad missed mine.
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:27.840
I'm not entangled in civilian affairs.
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:29.679
Who served in the military here?
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When it was time to deploy, did they care that your son's birthday was in two weeks?
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No.
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Did they care?
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:39.920
So so again, Paul uses the military as an analogy.
00:50:41.119 --> 00:50:50.400
A serviceman, and then I I actually studied this because I preached, I this is only my second time preaching here, but I've preached in Columbus, Georgia a lot, and Fort Benning's there, right?
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:51.280
Is that the right for it?
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:59.039
So when I was talking to some of the servicemen, they would talk to me about getting re-re um, what do they call it when they move you?
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:01.039
PCS.
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So then I thought to myself, that doesn't even make any sense to move people every two or three years because they pay for your moving expenses, and it's not like if you go here, there's super good training, but at the other place they're doing their own thing.
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:14.880
It's the same training everywhere.
00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:21.039
So what difference does it make if you're at Fort Benning or or or uh Fort Knox or Fort Bragg?
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:22.559
Why do they gotta move people around?
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:25.760
Plus, what you're already trained, so why move you?
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:27.760
And then I thought, I bet I know what it is.
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:32.320
I looked it up on Chat GPT, how many billions of dollars the military spends relocating families?
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:33.519
I thought, why do you do this?
00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:35.039
And it was exactly what I thought.
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:45.199
So that they never actually develop an attachment to that community and people, and they're just free to free to move when they're gonna move.
00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:48.320
And the Bible has that as a principle.
00:51:48.639 --> 00:51:56.320
My mom, who's probably watching, and she's great, but one time she made a comment like 12 years ago, she said, This is the third Mother's Day that you haven't been home.
00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:02.480
I said, Who is that in that grainy photo when I was a baby holding me at the altar, dedicating me to the Lord?
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I blame you.
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:10.400
She dedicated me to the Lord and Jesus took her up on it.
00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:12.320
I'm on a mission for God.
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And I'm gonna tell you, my daughter, my daughter was here.
00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:19.679
Does my daughter look sad in the eyes?
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Let me find her.
00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:25.519
She started texting me.
00:52:26.639 --> 00:52:29.280
I was so blown away last night.
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I finished talking with you guys at 10:56 p.m.
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Great job tonight.
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Love you, Pa.
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:35.760
Have a good night.
00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:36.960
She's watching me online.
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:38.159
She'll call me all the time.
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:40.239
She'll text me like specific things I said in this room.
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:41.199
That was great, pa.
00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:43.679
How you prayed for that guy and he can hear.
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See you when you get home.
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:48.960
Now let me tell you, then what you do.
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:58.800
When you do get home, you do not have the right to say daddy's tired and just sit and watch ESPN and veg out, though you feel like it.
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.800
Don't give the best to the world and scraps to your family.
00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:07.199
The same way when you don't feel like preaching, you dig deep and get something and come and preach.
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:11.760
When you don't feel like giving any energy to your wife and kids, dig deep and give them your best.
00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:18.719
And God will give you a grace to be a hundred percent minister and a hundred percent father and a hundred percent husband.
00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:21.679
No one here will lose their marriage in Jesus' name.
00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:26.880
Everyone here, your children will serve the Lord with passion in the name of Jesus.
00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:29.280
If you believe it, go ahead and celebrate it ahead of time.
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:31.760
Give the Lord a mighty hand clap and shout.
00:53:33.519 --> 00:53:36.719
Number three, refuse to be entangled in civilian affairs.
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:39.920
Number four, don't be a nothing.
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:41.679
Stand for something.
00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:45.360
Many people's ministries are a nothing.
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:51.360
You know, I believe God can heal, but then at the same time, no, I'm not a prosperity preacher.
00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:54.400
I believe God can meet the needs, and I do believe God can bless.
00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:55.360
What do you believe?
00:53:55.920 --> 00:54:08.639
You can't even say anything you believe without saying, you know, no, I'm not saying, because you don't want to get grouped in with Benny Hinn, you don't want to get grouped in with Kenneth Copeland, you don't want to get grouped in with Jesse DuPlantis, and so you are nothing.
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:15.119
And you're too prosperity for the anti-prosperity people, and not prosperity enough for the prosperity people.
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:21.920
And you're too Holy Ghost for the seeker-sensitive people, and you're not Holy Ghost enough for people like me that want to go to a church where the power of God is.
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:26.960
So, in in it in attempting to be in the middle, you reach no one.
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:37.440
That's why I guarantee you, that new channel, News Nation, that's meaning to be in the center, they'll they'll go bankrupt as soon as their initial funding runs out.
00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:40.960
Because no one's looking to hear talk down the middle.
00:54:41.119 --> 00:54:44.480
People either want Newsmax or they want MSNBC.
00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:49.440
You either want a channel that's as right wing as it gets or that's left of mouth.
00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:54.079
But nobody's looking for center, balanced speaking.
00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:55.679
And I'm gonna tell you something.
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:59.599
The Bible is not centered or balanced.
00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:02.639
The Bible is very unbalanced.
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:11.360
The Bible is strong on healing, the Bible is strong on prosperity, the Bible is strong on the gifts of the Spirit.
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So you're appealing to nobody.
00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:23.599
You should make up your mind to be reformed, anti-prosperity, anti-healing, cessationist, or go all in with the Holy Ghost.
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:30.639
But in the middle, you will definitely have a small nothing church or a small nothing evangelistic ministry.
00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:41.760
One time I said to Adallis, because I had a revival at this church and it blew up, and then the pastor got backlash from board members, and so he made the decision.
00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:52.480
Um, he told me, like, it caused such a stir with my board, they almost fired me, so I'm not gonna have you anymore, which I didn't ask to come back anyway, but I'm gonna have this guy instead.
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:59.119
I told Adolis, I'm glad I'm not the guy they call when they want to make sure they have not too much of the Holy Ghost.
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:02.000
And some people, that's what they make their ministry.
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:03.440
You're a nice, safe preacher.
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That when they pop 38 minutes up on the clock, you'll be done and you'll dismiss.
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:10.480
And I'm not saying everybody gets healed, but God does heal, amen.
00:56:10.559 --> 00:56:15.199
But then I'm not saying he's gonna give everyone a plane, but he does a blesser.
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:16.320
Hey, what are you saying?
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You're nothing.
00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:22.800
Be, be, figure out your doctrine and be strong on it.
00:56:23.039 --> 00:56:32.639
Figure out your eschatology, figure out about the rapture, figure out uh prosperity and healing and the power of God and preach it with all your heart.
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Can you say amen?
00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:41.760
There's a church that I know, the pastor, we were friends for a long time, and they go in a constant cycle.
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:46.559
They'll be seeker sensitive because they have leadership that are businessmen.
00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:53.519
Your board should not consist of your top donors, your board should not consist of the smartest business people in your church.
00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:58.079
Your board should consist of other ministers that provide leadership.
00:56:58.400 --> 00:56:59.840
Yeah, thanks for four amens.
00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:08.079
Just because I'm a good preacher doesn't mean I belong on your board of directors uh at a at a computer chip manufacturing company.
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I don't know anything about that.
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:15.920
And plumbers don't know anything about the ministry, even if they've built a regional plumbing company that takes in 70 million a year.
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:18.639
And business people don't understand.
00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:20.559
It doesn't apply for ministry.
00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:27.519
Pastor, how are you gonna build four churches when the ever nothing makes sense to the business mind that God asks you to do?
00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:29.199
Can you say amen?
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:37.119
So you you should have ministry oversight, not congregation, that's a check and balance to your ideas.
00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:38.480
Can you say amen?
00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:41.280
So this pastor goes in this cycle all the time.
00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:47.760
They do seeker-sensitive church, straight down the middle messages that don't really offend anybody.
00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:53.760
And then there's no kind of joy in that ministry, and there's not growth in that ministry.
00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:58.320
So then they get desperate and they start having problems with the church, and people argue and stuff.
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:00.239
So they go, we need revival.
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:02.480
And he'll fast and stuff then.
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:09.360
And then he'll preach on the power of God and say, We're gonna take, uh, we normally don't have Sunday night services, but we're gonna have Sunday night.
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:12.400
They'll lay hands on people and they'll have an influx of people.
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:16.639
And then he'll go back to being secret-sensitive and the Holy Ghost people leave.
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:22.639
And when he has the revival meetings, the secret-sensitive people leave because they came to a church that was seeker sensitive.
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:24.239
They don't want tongues and stuff.
00:58:24.400 --> 00:58:29.199
And then the Holy Ghost people come and they were attracted to signs and wonders and the power of God.
00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:31.920
And now you've gone back to church at the movies.
00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:33.199
I'm gonna tell you something.
00:58:33.440 --> 00:58:39.119
Quit having your preaching schedule, follow the Hallmark calendar of America.
00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:52.880
It is insane to me that in January we do 21 days of prayer and fasting, and because Valentine's Day is February 14th, people come out of prayer and fasting and launch a series on relationships and sit with their wife on a couch.
00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:57.440
Today we can talk about um we you need to have a date night.
00:58:57.679 --> 00:58:58.320
Amen.
00:58:58.719 --> 00:58:59.760
Powerful.
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Yeah.
00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:21.119
Why would you why would you gear your whole church up spiritually and just flush it down the toilet with some mental message about dating your wife and admitting that you're wrong and solving conflicts without yelling?
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:22.559
Those are all good things.
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:24.159
But church is spiritual.
00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:32.480
I'm gonna tell you, if you as a husband will be full of the Holy Ghost and your wife gets full of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost will counsel you as to what to do.
00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:34.000
Can you say amen?
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:39.519
It's like people won't fully commit to go the Holy Ghost way.
00:59:39.599 --> 00:59:41.679
It's like, all right, that's 21 days of prayer and fasting.
00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:43.199
Let's get back to normal.
00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:47.760
And normal is not a drop of the anointing in any of our services.
00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:51.599
I'm gonna tell you a way that you can tell you're an unanointed minister.
00:59:52.639 --> 01:00:08.159
If I had Sister Clarita as my worship leader and I was a normal pastor, and especially a normal white pastor, or somebody's a God pastor, when she got the anointing real strong, I wouldn't be able to do my message because my message isn't anointed.
01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:11.199
It's a mind message, so this is what they do.
01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:14.159
Power God's in, everybody's worshiping.
01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:20.480
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:24.000
Man, I almost could sing all day.
01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:27.440
Um, but let's get on with the announcements.
01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:29.599
They can they can't flow.
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:31.760
It's like the whole praise and worship is a waste of time.
01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:35.519
It gets just flushed out of the building because we have to do video.
01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:36.559
Man, that was powerful.
01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:38.320
I mean, I enjoyed Sister Clarita.
01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:40.639
Boy, those people can sing, amen.
01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:45.760
Her people are great praisers.
01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:50.559
Yeah, say a couple racist things and go on with your message.
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:56.000
Write it off to being black, not that you're backslidden.
01:00:56.159 --> 01:00:57.440
Can you say amen?
01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:08.400
Yeah, I remember we used to have the African children's choir come to our Pentecostal church when I was a kid, and they'd blow the place up, and our white Canadian pastor would get up and go, Boy, those people really can praise God.
01:01:09.440 --> 01:01:12.880
And you'd think Psalm 150 is not written to black people, my friend.
01:01:13.039 --> 01:01:14.239
It's written to everybody.
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Let everything that has breath praise ye the Lord.
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Can you say amen?
01:01:18.639 --> 01:01:20.480
Go ahead and give the Lord a praise.
01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:25.039
Flow in the anointing.
01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:31.840
If your message comes from the Holy Ghost, the more Clarita tunes the service up, the easier it is for me to deliver my message.
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:39.280
But if I'm gonna go sit on a leather prop couch and talk about having date night, I gotta wait till the Holy Ghost leaves to start my message.
01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:47.440
So if a powerful praise and worship set throws your message off, it's probably a crappy message.
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:49.039
Does that make sense?
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:52.320
You gotta wait for the anointing to leave to start preaching.
01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:53.440
You got a bad message.
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:55.519
Number four, don't be nothing.
01:01:55.760 --> 01:01:56.639
Stand for something.
01:01:56.880 --> 01:01:59.840
Be a Holy Ghost church, be a prosperity church.
01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:01.920
Let me tell you something about prosperity.
01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:17.199
In your effort to placate people that are bums, that hate the message of prosperity because they don't work, they don't give, they don't, they're so indoctrinated with public school communistic teaching.
01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:19.519
That's what's at the root of anti-prosperity.
01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:22.239
What does Joel Osteen need a house that big for?
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:24.480
How about mind your own freaking business?
01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:26.480
Did he buy it illegally?
01:02:26.559 --> 01:02:27.360
Then put him in jail.
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:29.840
Did he buy it with his own money that he earned legally?
01:02:30.159 --> 01:02:31.599
Then tough luck for you.
01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:33.519
What preacher needs a pool that big?
01:02:33.599 --> 01:02:37.280
If I were him, I'd build one three times bigger just to shut you up.
01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:40.480
Who are you to have say in what somebody buys?
01:02:41.599 --> 01:02:42.000
Yeah.
01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:47.679
Anyone ever see that escalade that I drive that's wrapped in rainbow chrome chameleon wrap?
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:49.280
I don't even like how it looks.
01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:52.320
I just did it as an offense to that spirit.
01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:55.679
To drive on the church properties and see a deacon go.
01:03:03.360 --> 01:03:05.599
Yeah, I'm not bowing to that spirit.
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:15.199
I'm gonna tell you what happens in your effort to placate bums that don't like prosperity, that aren't gonna give anything anyway, and don't care about you anyway.
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:26.000
You miss people that are glad that you're preaching prosperity, that are looking to acquire businesses for the kingdom of God and are looking for preaching on wealth and increase.
01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:37.519
So, when some when I posted the picture the first time the guy gave us a plane, and I put the picture up, and some guy that had like a wolf, a wolf face for his profile picture with green glowing eyes.
01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:38.960
I don't like that you have a jet.
01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:40.719
Yeah, you look troubled.
01:03:41.280 --> 01:03:43.039
I'm sure there's lots of things you don't like.
01:03:43.119 --> 01:03:44.079
You're a wolf.
01:03:46.400 --> 01:04:04.639
Why why am I gonna not post stuff like that because of a guy like him, Wolfman 617, when when I posted that picture, one guy from New Mexico sent a check 150,000 and in the memo for fuel.
01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:10.719
And another guy from East Texas sent a check for 100,000 in the memo for fuel.
01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:14.159
I like that you're you know, there's a guy that's on Fox Business.
01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:16.400
I started following him during um COVID.
01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:18.960
His economic analysis was great.
01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:21.599
Then I found out he's a Baptist Christian.
01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:25.360
So I posted me and Camila getting on the plane to fly.
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And he wrote underneath, I've really enjoyed it.
01:04:28.559 --> 01:04:29.280
He started following me.
01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:32.559
This is a Fox Business major investor that runs a hedge fund.
01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:39.840
He wrote, I've really enjoyed watching you use that plane to keep an incredible pace for the Lord and start all those churches.
01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:40.639
Keep it up.
01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:43.119
That's a guy that runs a wealthy investment.
01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:46.320
See, smart people under what does a preacher need a plane for?
01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:47.440
To fly.
01:04:47.920 --> 01:04:49.760
It's not that complicated.
01:04:50.159 --> 01:04:57.679
And if you try to count tail to that other spirit, if you read in church history, they criticize John Wesley for spending the Lord's money on a horse.
01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:02.320
So eventually you realize the devil's just anti-transportation.
01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:06.400
What does he need roller skates for?
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:07.760
Why can't he walk?
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The devil just doesn't like fast movement.
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So, in your effort to placate bums that are critics, you lose.
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Wealthy people don't make a lot of noise, except for me.
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They're quiet, they sit and watch, but they're looking for somebody to back that'll take the gus belt.
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You know, the one lady that sent$1.2 million into our ministry, she's in her mid-80s.
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I've never met her.
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She wrote, I got saved under Billy Graham's ministry, I got healed watching Catherine Kuhlman, and it has delighted me to watch you carry on their work.
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Here's some money for your mission.
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Some money, 1.2 million.
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When I said that thing on my broadcast that if anybody wants to give a million, I'll fly to your uh house and pick it up.
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A family called that day.
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Said, Is he serious?
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Then um, here's our address.
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If he flies to their house, we have a million dollars for him.
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He only got to tell me once.
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I was there in like eight hours.
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We came in.
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Talked and they gave me a million dollar check and it cleared during that building.
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They're happy.
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And and the guy, the guy, he said, Since I started watching you and doing what you said, our company went from a good company to now it's it's it's taken off.
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It's been a blessing.
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I want to do something for the kingdom of God through you.
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There's people that want to hear about wealth.
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Why should all these people that criticize that stuff, they'll all join for a thousand dollars a month some business gurus uh Zoom call where he drops F-bombs left and right, and it's anti-scriptural stuff, and it pulls people out of church.
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It's amazing to me, all these pastors that should be ashamed of themselves, that won't talk about money and wealth, but they'll have that life surge group come and talk about money and wealth and then sell MLM stuff in the back and and sign their church people up.
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They're not ministers.
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Tim Tebow canceled his event with Kenneth Copeland and Rod Parsley because he said he found out they're prosperity preachers, then preaches at Life Source and tells everybody how God will make you rich.
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You schizophrenic son of a gun.
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Pick a side.
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So you won't preach on it, so you'll prostitute it out to other people that are just looking to get your church people signed up for stuff and make money.
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It's time for the pastors to tell their people the whole gospel and the full counsel of God.
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Can you say amen?
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And if you don't, they're gonna find other places for it.
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And you're gonna spend lots of time preaching against Facebook prophets because you don't allow people to prophesy in church and you don't have prophets under your church.
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People have a desire for the supernatural, people have a desire to increase, and God put it there.
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So if they can't get at your church, they're gonna go find it somewhere else.
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And you can preach all the messages on loyalty you want, and and and who are these people there?
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You gotta be careful.
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You guys watch on Facebook.
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They're gonna keep looking because they're not getting it there.
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Can you say amen?
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Number four, don't be a nothing, stand for something.
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Number five, reject anti-growth mindsets.
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Anybody get anything out of this today?
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Reject anti-growth mindsets.
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I mentioned that young church planner that popped up in my feed.
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Hello, I'm a church planner.
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When you plant a church, you don't have any money, you don't have any people, you don't have any property, and you don't have anybody to help you.
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Yep, and you never will because you say stupid stuff.
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Reject anti-growth mindsets.
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Word of faith churches have some of the biggest anti-church growth mindsets of any group you'd ever meet.
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Baptists have church growth mindsets.
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Baptists teach church growth.
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Baptists buy school buses and go to Section 8 housing and kidnap a hundred kids and have them back before their parents wake up.
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Some people call it human trafficking, others call it vacation Bible school.
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They grow a church.
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They look for their churches to grow.
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And word of faith people and Pentecostal people, you know, when you preach the faith message, a lot of people don't want to hear it.
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So your church doesn't grow like, oh yeah, really?
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So Jesus didn't really preach faith?
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Did Jesus have six people coming to watch him, or did Jesus have multitudes coming to watch him?
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Quit having dumb doctrines that are based on incomplete scriptures.
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How many know after all the miracles Jesus did, there was only 120 in the upper room?
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Yeah, for 10 days.
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And then 3,000 were added to the church on opening day.
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Then it went to 5,000.
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Then it was, who are these men that have filled the whole of Jerusalem with their doctrine?
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Then it was who are these men who have turned the whole world upside down?
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Your church will multiply.
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Your ministry will multiply from today.
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Say with me.
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No group of people are hard to reach.
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If you get into that mindset, Chicago's hard, Japan's hard, the South's hard because there's so many churches, the north's hard because no one goes to church.
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Canada's hard.
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Blah, blah.
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To quote my friend Chris Farley.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Everybody say nothing's too hard.
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Say nothing's even hard.
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Anywhere God sends you, the Bible says, wherever the soul of your foot shall tread, you'll be on land that I've given to you.
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Can you say amen?
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Reject anti-growth mindset.
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If God called you to pastor somewhere, he called you to succeed.
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Joshua 1.8.
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Let me see it.
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Joshua 1.8.
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Study this book of instruction continually, meditate on it day and night, so you'll be sure to obey everything written in it.
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Only then will you prosper and succeed in how many things you do?
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How many know that the world measures success differently than God measures it?
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The world wants to see big numbers and big churches, but God wants to see a healthy church.
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Where are you getting this from?
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Where are you getting it when the day of Pentecost came?
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It went from 120 to 60 people, but they were very healthy.
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Why do you have anti-growth mind?
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Why do you celebrate smallness?
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Our church might not be big in number, but it's big in spirit.
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I don't believe you.
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It's probably smaller in spirit than it is in number.
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Because if you read the if you read the Bible, you cannot be big in spirit and have small on the outside.
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A large spirit produces on the outside.
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I want you to catch that.
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When you increase, okay, since you're sitting on that one, I'll give you one that's even crazier.
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Pastor that I know asked Oral Roberts when he was alive, obviously.
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What's the secret to grow in my church?
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And Oral Roberts responded, When you preach and get to the point that you can feel the anointing bouncing off the back wall and hitting you, it'll fill the building.
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What an insane answer to a question.
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But as I've gotten older, I know what he's talking about.
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If you increase the strength of the anointing in your spirit to the point where when you preach, you can feel it filling the room, it'll fill the room with people.
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The fire of Pentecost fell, and before that day was over, 3,000 joined that church of 120.
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The anointing draws people, and God will never allow his word to remain without an audience.
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I was preaching in prison uh three weeks ago, I think.
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And it was amazing.
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There was only they only allowed 11 guys, and it was the violent offenders unit, and there was one guard.
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And then as I preached, second guard came and sat down, third guard came and sat down, fourth guard came and sat down.
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They weren't on duty.
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The one guy that was guarding us was standing up.
01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:40.479
They were just listening.
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Fifth guard, warden, assistant warden.
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Before you knew it, it had gone from 11 to whatever in about 40 minutes.
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Because as the word was going out, people were leaving their cells.
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They had, no, I don't want to go to Bible study.
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Then they're hearing it.
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Right.
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Because God's word is a magnet for people.
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So I wanted you to ask a question, and this will solve a lot of questions as to why a church or ministry is not growing.
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Go watch your last message on YouTube or Facebook Live or whatever you put it on and count how many scriptures you use.
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Do you have an opening text and then just give thoughts for the next 20 minutes and close?
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You won't have a big church.
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God doesn't anoint your thoughts.
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The word is anointed above everything else.
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God honors his word above his name.
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Billy Graham said, I noticed the more scriptures I used, the more powerful the results were.
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So I coveted with God to never use less than 70 scriptures when I preached.
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Everybody thinks Billy Graham is such a simple message.
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Not really.
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When you listen to it, he's just rattling off one verse.
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You know, it was a crusade, so he didn't say turn in your Bible.
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You're just saying that North Carolina accent, the Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
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The Bible says the wages of sin is death.
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The Bible says if you count it, one after another after another, and the whole world is sitting on the front of their seat.
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And then when he gives the altar call, the hands go up because God will never allow his word to return void.
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So if you have one scripture and you apologize before you read that scripture, let me read the scripture before some religious person gets mad.
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I'm religious because I want to hear the Bible.
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You're lucky I don't throw a hymnal at your head.
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God honors his word above his name.
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Every point you make.
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Put three three scriptures to back it up.
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Now that you got Chat GPT, it's the easiest thing in the world.
01:14:34.079 --> 01:14:35.760
Provided you have signal.
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Give me seven scriptures that show that God wants me physically healthy and healed.
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Alright.
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One anchor for that is Exodus 15, where God declares, I am the Lord who heals you.
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Then you've got Psalm 103, which promises he forgives all sins and heals all diseases.
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And for the New Testament, you can't miss 3 John 1 2, where it says, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you.
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What part of seven did you not understand?
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Got it.
01:15:18.079 --> 01:15:18.800
Just the verses.
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Exodus 15, 26.
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No, give me seven scriptures.
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You've given me three.
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Give me four more.
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Do they have feelings?
01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:37.279
Anyway, that was there.
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There were three right there.
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So you get seven as you work with it.
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You use seven for all your points.
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Don't just make thoughts.
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And then if you have scriptures to back up what you say, you're not going to get into bad doctrine.
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Especially if you have multiple scriptures.
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Can you say amen?
01:15:52.079 --> 01:15:54.880
Use the word, use the Bible, left and right.
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Use it to back up.
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Have an opening text.
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Have scriptures for all your points.
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Have closing text.
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Can you say amen?
01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:04.239
And that gets me to the next point.
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Reject an entitlement mindset.
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Most churches don't grow because the pastor wonders why people don't come instead of wondering why anyone would come.
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There's a revival going on in America right now.
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You should do your part to make sure that people that haven't been to church don't go to church and remember why they don't go to church.
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That it's boring, that they don't get anything out of it.
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You know, I don't understand why people don't come to our church.
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Why should why why do the remaining people keep coming?
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No one owes you coming to church.
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It is a big deal, particularly at gas at$4.50 a gallon.
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It is a big deal for somebody to get up and shower and put clothes on or work all day and instead of going home and laying down, spend extra money to come here, you preach.
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And when they come, there should never be one time that people left and felt like they had their time wasted.
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Time wasted does not have to do with how long the service is.
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You can be in a four-hour service that you wish would have gone five hours, and you can be in an 80-minute service that felt like it was 10 hours and you wish would have ended earlier because they wasted your time, because it wasn't organized, because people were goofing around.
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When people come to your service, they should feel like, man, I got something there that was worth going to.
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And when you do that, you're gonna see it this week.
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People will start driving from all over the country because they know I am not gonna have my time wasted there.
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I'm gonna get something from God.
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Your church has to have that reputation.
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When you go there, there is power, and you will have an encounter with God.
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Receive that grace in Jesus' name.
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Say with me, reject an entitlement mindset.
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Here's three points I gave to our Bible college students that I want you to write down.
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No one likes you, no one cares, no one is coming to help.
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If you'll settle those three things, you'll never be disappointed.
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Most people expect people to care, expect people to help, and expect people to like and value their ministry, but people don't.
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If you have stage four cancer and you tell someone and they have a toothache, they nod their head and leave and think about how to get their toothache fixed.
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People care about them.
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People care about their families.
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So if you're expecting people to be up at night, helping, wondering how they can help you with their your building program or your missions trip, they don't care.
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You have to learn to serve them and that no one owes you anything, and then be surprised.
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Never, if my wife wasn't somewhere with no cell phone signal, I'd call her and get her to testify on my behalf.
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Never have I said, this person goes to our church.
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What do they give?
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Oh, they've only given 2,000 all year.
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Aren't they multi-millionaires?
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I can't believe it.
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No, I'd be thankful they gave 2,000.
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They don't have to give me anything.
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Just because you have money and I'm doing something that requires money doesn't mean I'm entitled to your money.
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Which is a great message if you're watching in the Democrat Party.
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We should all pay our fair share.
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What's uh your fair share of what I legally earned?
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I don't believe the government's entitled to my money, and I don't believe I'm entitled to church people's money.
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I teach on tithing.
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I have never once told our church people your tithe belongs in our church.
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But they tithe to our church anyway.
01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:30.720
And it wouldn't matter if I told them it, but you can't guilt people into giving.
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You can for a little bit, maybe.
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But people have to do it out of a love, out of an affection for what you're doing.
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Can you say amen?
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Don't expect people to care about your ministry.
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Some of you will pastor somewhere and your mother lives in that town and she'll go to another church.
01:19:48.880 --> 01:19:51.680
Your brother will live in that town and he'll go to another church.
01:19:52.000 --> 01:19:53.760
Yeah, man, my brother doesn't even go to our church.
01:19:53.840 --> 01:19:54.079
Yeah.
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Don't expect anybody to come to your church.
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Be happy that anyone has come.
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You don't deserve them coming, you earn them coming, and you have to earn them coming back.
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Can you say amen?
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Number six, reject an entitlement mindset.
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And then I close with this two intake vows.
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What are the actual ways to grow the church?
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It's basically going to be two things.
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Number seven, which is number one of these last two, how you preach.
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And this is a message I did at a Bible college before COVID, and I saw it pop up on my YouTube, and I grabbed the notes.
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Very quickly, nine keys to effective preaching.
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Number one, 2 Timothy 4, 2.
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Preach the word of God.
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That's what the Bible says.
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Paul told Timothy, your primary responsibility is to preach the word.
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What did Philip the evangelist do?
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Philip went and preached Christ unto them.
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Krause listened intently to what he had to say because of the miracles that he did.
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They go hand in hand, but they don't go one without the other.
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It's wrong to preach and not have a demonstration of power come behind your preaching scripturally, and it's wrong to try to have a move of God and play down the word of God.
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God said, I honor my word above my name.
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Number one, preach the word of God.
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I guess that was the introduction.
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Number one, major on the majors.
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You should stay on the cardinal doctrines of the Bible.
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An old preacher told a friend of mine when he was starting out in the ministry, don't preach on anything except salvation through the blood of Jesus, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, divine healing, and the soon return of Christ until you're 30 years old.
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And he was under that ministry.
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And when I heard that, I thought, man, I'm glad I'm not working for that guy.
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Why would you restrict someone like that?
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And now that I've heard many people's messages on YouTube, I thought, what great advice.
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When's the last time you did a series on who Jesus is?
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What faith can do?
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A series on divine healing.
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A series on the baptism in the Holy Ghost and speaking with other tongues.
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See what'll happen if you'll do that?
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You'll start becoming a preacher that other preachers in town preach against, and that grows your church.
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Because Americans like to go where a guy's telling them not to go.
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Can you say amen?
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Number one, major on the majors.
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Number two, listen to preaching.
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Faith cometh by not reading, hearing.
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Preaching is a spiritual gift, and it comes by impartation and continued impartation.
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Everybody say impartation and continued impartation.
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If you listen to nothing but teachers, or mostly teachers, you'll never be a preacher.
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There's nothing wrong with teaching, but evangelism is not teaching.
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Evangelism is preaching.
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Philip went to Samaria and preached Christ unto them.
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An evangelist is a preacher.
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There's a difference between preaching and teaching.
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Teaching is for those who believe.
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Preaching converts those who don't believe.
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Listen to preachers.
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What preachers do you listen to?
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Listen to preachers that preach with a fire, and that contagion will get into you.
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Listen to preachers that preach with a fire, and that contagion will get into you.
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Don't just listen to other people preaching.
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Listen to your preaching.
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Record all your messages.
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Don't ask your mother what she thinks about your preaching.
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She won't be straight with you.
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Listen to your preaching like you're in the public listening to yourself.
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Is it boring?
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Do you ramble?
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What are your first words when you get the mic?
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Do you dawdle around for six minutes?
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Praise the Lord, amen.
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Hallelujah.
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Praise God.
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Amen.
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Hallelujah.
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Um, do you have some kind of religious tourette?
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You said nothing in 40 seconds.
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Are you having a stroke?
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Everything okay?
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Get up and get, you know, have something to say.
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Praise the Lord, everybody.
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Tonight, God's going, God's gonna do this.
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Tonight we're believing for this.
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Let's get into the Bible.
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Get into your text.
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Can you say amen?
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Number three, your preaching should have mountains and valleys.
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Meaning, don't be monotone.
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All low is monotone.
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People will lose interest when you speak like that.
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You know what else is monotone?
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All screaming.
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Everything from the time they give you the mic.
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If you talk like that all the time, there's no way to inflect anything.
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All preaching, volume, should have mountains and valleys.
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If it's all like you just did a hit of meth from the time you get the mic till you're done, then it actually becomes boring just like all low speaking.
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And so you have to inflect.
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So I wrote this down.
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Listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, I Have a Dream.
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It's a masterclass on speaking.
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There's times where his words per minute are extremely slow, and there's other times where it's 400 words a minute.
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When Martin Luther King Jr.
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did that speech, it studied by um it's studied by in speech classes and in broadcasting school because it's a master of inflection and mountains and valleys.
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There's times where he does like a pace of like 12 words a minute.
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I have a dream.
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Then slow down again.
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Then up.
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It holds people's attention.
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It's a fact.
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All this, praise the Lord.
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How many of you are happy to be in church today?
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How many of you believe we're gonna have a good day, amen?
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You talk like that, you got about 30 seconds before people start cutting their wrists.
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And then if it's all, we're gonna invite Brother Jonathan to bring.
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Bring load, everybody! How many of you are gonna bring it up, buddy?
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Okay.
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And then after a while, there it's monotone.
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Any tone is monotone.
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So all preaching must have mountains and valleys.
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Emphasize things.
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Your preaching should always have mountains and valleys.
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And by that I don't mean good parts and bad parts.
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I mean everything shouldn't always be at one level.
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Number four, don't be a stereotype.
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If you're not careful, you'll become a chameleon.
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When you're at a full gospel place, you'll preach like you're a Holy Ghost preacher.
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When you go to a place where they're iffy about the Holy Spirit, then you change and be different.
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Don't blend in where you're at.
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Be you.
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People say be unique, but you don't have to.
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You already are unique.
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Don't let people turn you into what they want in that church.
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Speak to where people are at, and you'll find that when you go all over the world, people are the same.
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Preach to people that are hurting.
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And you'll get and you won't get discouraged when you see people full of pride get up and storm out.
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People can smell phoniness.
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You should have one voice and one way that you do things.
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One thing, how many of you have followed our ministry for over two years?
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How many gears would you say I have?
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One.
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Wherever you hear me preach, you're gonna basically hear the same thing.
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And if you back me up on YouTube to 2011, when I first started getting recorded, you're gonna hear the same thing.
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I might be a little more skilled at how I do it, but I'm preaching the same stuff with the same passion.
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If you don't like the Holy Ghost, don't have me in.
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If you want a 30-minute message, I'm not your guy.
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Now I'm not saying it's bad if you can do that, but that's not me.
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And you're not gonna turn me into what you want me to be.
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I am what I am by the grace of God.
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Figure if you don't figure out what your ministry is, other people will make you into what they want your ministry to be.
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Can you say amen?
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So um, don't be a chameleon and don't be a phony.
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You've heard me say before, if you know, you're your people preach, do you talk like that at a Chick-fil-A?
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I'll have a number one.
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Now I'm gonna tell you something.
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There's guys that preach like that, that that's their actual way they talk.
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They talk like that after church when it's just you and them.
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Come on, then let's go.
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I feel I feel uh I've had guys say literally, and and and you could tell that it's like them.
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I feel an anointing to go get a cheeseburger.
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I feel that anointing too.
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They do talk like that.
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But when you're trying to be church of God in Christ, or trying to be church of God, or trying to be assemblies of God, you know, then you're not, you're gonna miss something.
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There's something that God made about you that's unique, that the Lord will use to reach people.
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Don't try to be what you're not, be what you are by the grace of God.
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Can you say amen?
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And don't get obsessed with being what you're not.
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I want to just tell you something as a side point.
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I am not for um self-improvement.
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I'm for figuring out what you're gifted to do and focus 100% on that one thing.
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I am, ask my wife, I'm zero help around the house.
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I can't fix anything, and I'm not on any YouTube tutorials learning how to fix anything.
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That's what helps our local economy.
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All of the mechanics and general contractors stay in business because I'm a moron when it comes to tools.
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But one thing I can do is this thing that I'm being asked to do this week, and I focus all my energy on getting better at it.
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Instead of focusing, all these self-improvement people, you know, I just want to become more well-rounded.
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Don't become well-rounded.
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Become pointed, become somebody.
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Shaquille O'Neal had one thing he could do when he played basketball.
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He was no threat from three-point range, he was no threat at mid-range jumpers, but he was a violent threat around the basket.
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And nobody cared how well he did in math at school, even with your kids.
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Who cares what they get bad grades in?
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Your child's not doing well in math.
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Well, then they can hire an accountant when they get older.
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I don't, I don't, I doubt Shaq's mom cared, even though I know he has an earned doctorate now.
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But if he was doing bad math at LSU or whatever, who cares?
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He's tearing backboards down.
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Why always have your kid focused on what they're not good at?
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Find the thing they're good at and teach them to get even better at it.
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Find your strength and become dominant in that strength.
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Oral Roberts said one of the biggest mistakes preachers make is trying to get a new message all the time.
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Figure out what your message is.
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One, two, or three things that you're passionate about.
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Now, obviously, if you're a pastor, you're gonna have to develop it and go past that.
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But you should find where your passion is.
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Healing the sick.
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Lester Sumrell, casting out devils.
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Or Roberts, healing the sick.
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A.
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Allen, miracles, Billy Graham, souls, Kenneth Hagin, Faith.
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Any great preacher, their message goes down to one thing.
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Young Yi Cho, church growth.
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Find your thing and do it with all your might.
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Don't let people turn you into what they want you to be, be what God has called you to be.
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Number five, preach with passion.
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Can you find Tessa T.D.
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Jakes?
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Wake up.
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Just type in T.D.
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Jakes, wake up.
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This is from 30 years ago.
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So preach with passion.
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And If Jonathan's very passionate, not really.
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I would say this would be passionate.
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Go ahead.
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Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake, wake, wake up out of your sleep.
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Wake up.
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Wake up out of your sleep.
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Wake up.
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You know what's interesting?
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That church was jammed when he was sweating through his three-piece suit, looking like he jumped in a pool.
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And headset, Mike, and principals emptied the place.
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They teach you to do a refined version of you to be appealing, and you're actually not appealing to anybody.
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And getting on fire and preaching with power, people will come from all over to see somebody that has a passion for their message.
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Can you say amen?
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They got a hundred churches to go to if they like refined.
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If you go like that, they'll have one place they can go, your place.
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And people like passion.
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People don't watch Gordon Ramsey because he's the best chef.
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He's not.
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I'm not saying he's not a good chef, but he's not the best chef.
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I don't even think he has Michelin stars.
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He's the cursingest chef.
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He's the meanest, he's got passion.
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He takes two pieces of bread and holds it to the chef's face and says, This is an idiot sandwich.
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And I like that.
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I like someone that believes in what they're doing.
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You should sound like you believe in what you're doing.
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Can you say amen?
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I'm telling you, you listen to a lot of live streams.
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I don't think that guy believes in his message.
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I think if I pulled the gun to his head, I could get him to say, I didn't mean that.
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But not me.
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You could pull the trigger.
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I don't take back one thing I said.
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I had a pastor uh call me from another country because the guy that was under him got upset about something I I said and called him to call me.
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And he said, I want you to apologize for what you said.
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I said, sir, I respect you very much.
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I just have to tell you, not only am I not sorry, as I've thought about it over the last two weeks, I mean it more now than I did when I said it.
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I stand by what I said.
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I don't adjust what I'm saying based on people's reaction to it.
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Neither did Jesus.
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I'm not saying you're going out to be intentionally hurtful or anything, but if you say what's right, you're gonna hurt people.
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Because people get hurt over anything.
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I just was hurt.
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Okay, go to therapy.
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I can't help it.
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Figure out what you believe.
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Stop adjusting what you say based on who doesn't believe it.
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Can you say amen?
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Stop every time you make a point, count uh following up with.
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Now I'm not saying you don't preach against alcohol.
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No, I'm not saying.
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I know some people drink here.
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What are you?
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You're a waste of time because you're preaching against drinking and for drinking, you're preaching against healing and for healing.
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Pick a lane and hit it with everything you got.
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More old school Bishop Jakes, please.
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Wake up out of your sleep, wake up.
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Look at that, please.
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Wake up in your sleep.
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Someone told me to tell you, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up.
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You know what that's called?
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That's called the foolishness of preaching.
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And that's what your flesh tries to back away from.
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Hello, it's good to be here.
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I just want, and in your mind, you want to be here and do a nice sermon, something no one can criticize, and you don't sweat.
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If you don't have dry cleaning bills, you're not a preacher.
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When I lived in Oakdale, Pennsylvania, there was a dry cleaner there, and my wife went in to drop my suits off and smoking a cigarette.
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The lady went, How's your husband's ministry going?
01:35:29.920 --> 01:35:31.279
She didn't care about our ministry.
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If my ministry goes under, her business goes under.
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Can you say amen?
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Keep going.
01:35:42.079 --> 01:35:42.960
Wake up.
01:35:43.520 --> 01:35:44.399
Wake up.
01:35:44.800 --> 01:35:47.600
Stop crying and wake up.
01:35:47.840 --> 01:35:50.239
Stop worrying and wake up.
01:35:50.800 --> 01:35:51.359
Stop fretting.
01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:52.720
I'll tell you another thing if you're a preacher.
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Hear that music that's playing?
01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:59.439
Get something like that instead of some depressed 23-year-old with an acoustic guitar.
01:36:01.439 --> 01:36:03.039
Imagine if he was preaching like that.
01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:13.840
Say a word with me.
01:36:14.000 --> 01:36:14.560
Praise.
01:36:16.479 --> 01:36:17.199
Praise.
01:36:18.000 --> 01:36:20.800
Praise is high-level praise.
01:36:21.359 --> 01:36:23.199
It's not worship, it's praise.
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There's a place for worship, but that's not it.
01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:28.640
They didn't worship the walls of Jericho down.
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They shouted the walls of Jericho down.
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And your church needs to have a shouting element to it.
01:36:36.159 --> 01:36:38.560
There's a time to mourn, there's a time to shout.
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That's why I have Tony and Clarita with me.
01:36:42.399 --> 01:36:43.600
They're not depressed.
01:36:44.800 --> 01:36:46.399
They have joy and praise.
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You can't have a revival with the music that some of you have at your church.
01:36:50.079 --> 01:36:55.920
You'll never have a you'll never have a church that grows with three depressed guitar players.
01:36:56.800 --> 01:36:58.720
You know some church, all they have is acoustic guitars.
01:36:58.800 --> 01:37:00.560
I went to one place, they had three guys playing the acoustic guitar.
01:37:00.720 --> 01:37:03.760
I said, I've never seen a white mariachi band before.
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And I was not asked back.
01:37:08.640 --> 01:37:12.000
I feel like buying all three of them sombreros while they're at it.
01:37:12.239 --> 01:37:15.439
And even the mariachi music would have been an upgrade.
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Somebody say praise.
01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:19.359
Shambok had an organ.
01:37:19.439 --> 01:37:22.720
You know, we were at the soccer place, and I said, I want a B3 organ.
01:37:25.279 --> 01:37:30.239
Pastor heard me say it on live stream and shipped his up, and it was there for the next Sunday.
01:37:30.479 --> 01:37:32.560
There's an anointing on the B3 organ.
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Thanks for two amens.
01:37:34.960 --> 01:37:38.640
I feel like I'm giving this speech at a United Church of Christ meeting.
01:37:39.359 --> 01:37:40.800
There's an anointing on the organ.
01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:43.039
And there is an anointing.
01:37:43.119 --> 01:37:44.560
You know, there's actually a Bible verse?
01:37:54.079 --> 01:37:57.680
What does the Bible say that people that are depressed can't serve in the house of God?
01:37:58.640 --> 01:37:59.439
I hear you.
01:37:59.680 --> 01:38:00.800
I'll be direct.
01:38:01.039 --> 01:38:03.600
The Bible doesn't say someone who's depressed can't serve.
01:38:04.000 --> 01:38:04.880
Yes, it does.
01:38:05.199 --> 01:38:06.560
Tell me where it is.
01:38:07.279 --> 01:38:12.479
There's no words that outright declares a depressed person is forbidden from serving in God's house.
01:38:12.800 --> 01:38:15.439
The Bible does show people like Elijah or David.
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No, I'm telling you, I'm not wrong.
01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:22.319
What is it?
01:38:22.800 --> 01:38:24.079
I want to find it.
01:38:24.560 --> 01:38:27.279
This lady wasn't ones and zeros, I'm telling you.
01:38:31.760 --> 01:38:36.560
Where does it say that the people that where does it say the people that serve in God's house have to be joyful?
01:38:44.079 --> 01:38:45.920
Yes, but that there's another one too.
01:38:46.000 --> 01:38:47.520
I'm telling you, I'm not wrong.
01:38:47.760 --> 01:38:50.479
I'd bet my daughter's life on it.
01:38:51.119 --> 01:38:51.760
Not mine.
01:38:51.920 --> 01:38:52.960
I got stuff to do.
01:38:55.039 --> 01:38:56.880
We hear more more brother Jigs.
01:39:03.039 --> 01:39:04.000
To get ready.
01:39:04.560 --> 01:39:05.439
To get ready.
01:39:05.920 --> 01:39:06.640
To get her in.
01:39:06.960 --> 01:39:07.600
Wake up.
01:39:10.479 --> 01:39:11.439
Wake up.
01:39:12.560 --> 01:39:13.520
Wake up.
01:39:14.159 --> 01:39:15.279
In the balcony.
01:39:15.680 --> 01:39:16.479
Wake up.
01:39:17.279 --> 01:39:19.680
In the plastic, wake up.
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Can you say amen?
01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:31.600
Preach with passion.
01:39:32.640 --> 01:39:35.119
Cultivate a church that's got passion.
01:39:35.359 --> 01:39:37.439
Now, I'm not trying to be abrasive.
01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:39.199
I don't have to try.
01:39:39.439 --> 01:39:44.640
But when I was saying, like when I was asking you questions at the beginning and nobody responded, to me that's like a rebellion.
01:39:44.800 --> 01:39:50.239
That's why when you go preach at my church, it everyone that preaches at my church says this is the easiest place I've ever preached.
01:39:50.319 --> 01:39:50.800
You know why?
01:39:50.880 --> 01:39:57.359
I didn't allow our church people to um what would you say is the number one issue?
01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:00.800
That's rebellion.
01:40:01.279 --> 01:40:03.039
Why are you staring down the pastor?
01:40:03.279 --> 01:40:04.319
Now I'm telling you something.
01:40:04.399 --> 01:40:08.800
That's something you have to break at your church because the crowd will challenge you.
01:40:13.600 --> 01:40:16.880
And when you see people doing that, you don't have to lay into everybody.
01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:25.680
I'll tell you, if you think you should have seen me in my 20s, there's only 31 people in the meeting, so if somebody was tearing me down, then it was me against you, brother.
01:40:26.720 --> 01:40:28.880
I was gonna get you to uncross your arms.
01:40:29.039 --> 01:40:30.960
I told, I told, I'll tell you one.
01:40:31.760 --> 01:40:35.439
See, there are things like that in the spirit that have to do with authority.
01:40:35.600 --> 01:40:43.920
When you tell everyone to stand up and lift their hands, and a guy stays seated and goes like this, that's called rebellion, and he's taking authority over you.
01:40:44.159 --> 01:40:47.359
So you can handle it any way you want, but I can tell you what I did one time.
01:40:47.600 --> 01:40:51.760
I was in Indiana and I said, everybody stand to your feet and lift your hands, and everybody did.
01:40:51.840 --> 01:40:58.720
It was at the end of the service when I preached on praise, and I actually preached against how the Bible says, Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord.
01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:02.079
And when you come into his house, come with your hands lifted and sh and shout.
01:41:02.239 --> 01:41:06.399
And after all that preaching, when I said, Everybody, now now we're gonna do what the Bible says.
01:41:06.560 --> 01:41:08.960
Everyone stand to your feet and lift your hands and shout.
01:41:09.119 --> 01:41:17.119
And everyone stood up, and this redneck Indiana guy, northern Indiana, his girlfriend stood up and he went like this.
01:41:17.840 --> 01:41:23.520
So to give him a second chance, I said, because I don't want to get myself in some trouble if he could wasn't able to stand or whatever.
01:41:23.760 --> 01:41:27.920
I said, anybody that's physically able to stand, I want you to do it.
01:41:28.159 --> 01:41:32.000
He dug his heels in, and then I went over to him.
01:41:32.159 --> 01:41:36.640
And I said, uh, are are you are you crippled or unable to walk?
01:41:36.880 --> 01:41:38.000
He went, nope.
01:41:38.239 --> 01:41:39.520
I said, then stand up.
01:41:39.680 --> 01:41:41.199
He went, I'm not standing up.
01:41:41.359 --> 01:41:43.279
I said, I'm gonna tell you something, my friend.
01:41:43.439 --> 01:41:49.279
You're either gonna stand up voluntarily or I'm gonna grab you under the arms and stand you up and throw you out into the parking lot.
01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:51.279
But I promise you, you're gonna stand up.
01:41:51.439 --> 01:41:57.039
Now I didn't have the physical capacity to do anything I said, but it felt good saying it.
01:41:57.760 --> 01:42:02.640
When I said that, he got up and stormed out of the church.
01:42:02.880 --> 01:42:06.960
And he motioned to his girlfriend to come with him, and she went like this.
01:42:09.520 --> 01:42:11.920
And I said, I got her.
01:42:13.600 --> 01:42:16.960
I took your girl for the house of God.
01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:18.319
And he stormed out.
01:42:18.399 --> 01:42:22.319
And when I gave the altar call to get saved, she came forward and gave her life to the Lord.
01:42:22.640 --> 01:42:27.119
That night she came back without him and four more of her girlfriends, and they got saved.
01:42:27.279 --> 01:42:31.520
If you cowtail to that spirit, it actually takes authority over you.
01:42:31.680 --> 01:42:35.119
But if you break that spirit, it'll break something loose in your church.
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Can you say amen?
01:42:37.840 --> 01:42:38.880
Praise God.
01:42:39.119 --> 01:42:40.479
And you can tell.
01:42:40.720 --> 01:42:42.399
I could put live streams up.
01:42:42.640 --> 01:42:45.920
And you'd see that pastors are the pastor at that church, but they're not in charge.
01:42:46.000 --> 01:42:48.560
I'm gonna make, I know I've run a little long, but I'm gonna make one more point.
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Is that okay?
01:42:51.119 --> 01:42:52.319
Are you the leader?
01:42:53.119 --> 01:42:55.199
Are you voted in by the congregation?
01:42:56.000 --> 01:42:57.600
Yeah, that's the problem with a lot of them.
01:42:58.079 --> 01:43:00.720
You're voted in by the congregation and they rule you.
01:43:07.279 --> 01:43:08.239
You gotta break it.
01:43:08.319 --> 01:43:09.359
Everybody say, break it.
01:43:10.079 --> 01:43:12.720
I'm not having a church where, like, I'm not talking about here.
01:43:12.800 --> 01:43:13.840
I'm talking about my churches.
01:43:13.920 --> 01:43:15.199
I made up my mind when we started doing it.
01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:17.520
When I said, let's say, let's say a loud amen.
01:43:18.560 --> 01:43:19.760
You know, three people say amen.
01:43:20.399 --> 01:43:21.199
What's going on?
01:43:22.399 --> 01:43:27.439
I actually don't want you here if you're gonna be a Christian that comes to deaden the church.
01:43:27.920 --> 01:43:33.039
If you make lukewarm people feel comfortable at your church, you will have a lukewarm church.
01:43:33.279 --> 01:43:34.800
Sinners should feel welcome.
01:43:34.960 --> 01:43:37.279
Lukewarm should feel unwelcome.
01:43:41.119 --> 01:43:47.119
Jesus was a friend to sinners, but a tormentor of the lukewarm.
01:43:48.479 --> 01:43:51.439
Number six, preach the word that you're passionate about.
01:43:51.680 --> 01:43:56.720
Make a list of seven things in the Bible that you're passionate about, not that interest you, that you're passionate about.
01:43:58.560 --> 01:44:03.600
For me, I'm passionate about Joshua chapter 1, I'm passionate about Deuteronomy 28, 1 to 14.
01:44:03.760 --> 01:44:06.560
Find seven things in the word that impassion you.
01:44:07.039 --> 01:44:10.239
What that if someone said something against it, you feel like fighting them.
01:44:11.760 --> 01:44:14.159
Preach the word that you're passionate about.
01:44:14.399 --> 01:44:16.800
Number seven, load your preaching with the word.
01:44:17.039 --> 01:44:18.479
We already covered that.
01:44:18.960 --> 01:44:22.960
Number eight, illustrate your message with stories of God's power currently.
01:44:23.119 --> 01:44:23.920
Say this out loud.
01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:25.199
Feature testimonies.
01:44:26.880 --> 01:44:28.720
And number nine, preach for a result.
01:44:29.039 --> 01:44:32.000
You don't decide where you're going to land the plane after you take off.
01:44:32.159 --> 01:44:34.000
You have the flight mapped out ahead of time.
01:44:34.159 --> 01:44:38.640
You should know going into the service what your end goal is and start going after it from the beginning.
01:44:38.800 --> 01:44:40.079
What result are you going for?
01:44:40.319 --> 01:44:45.920
Salvation, baptism of the Holy Ghost, divine healing, victory over sin, deliverance from the bondage of sin.
01:44:46.079 --> 01:44:47.920
Uh uh go for something.
01:44:48.079 --> 01:44:49.199
Preach for a result.
01:44:49.439 --> 01:44:51.199
You're to preach for something.
01:44:51.359 --> 01:44:55.760
Don't ramble, don't get into the pulpit unprepared under the guise of flowing in the spirit.
01:44:56.000 --> 01:45:00.079
The thing that is going to define your open doors is the ability to handle the word of God.
01:45:00.239 --> 01:45:03.840
Don't come in depressed, come in with joy, be a happy preacher.
01:45:04.000 --> 01:45:05.039
There's joy and faith.
01:45:05.119 --> 01:45:06.000
So where are you gonna land?
01:45:06.399 --> 01:45:09.359
One thing when you listen to Billy Graham, the second he got the mic.
01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:14.880
Tonight, at the close of this message, I'm gonna give you an invitation to come to this altar and receive Jesus Christ.
01:45:14.960 --> 01:45:17.680
He didn't give the altar at the end of the message, the altar call.
01:45:17.760 --> 01:45:25.600
He gave it in the beginning, he gave it after point one, he gave it after point two, gave it after point three, and then at point four, he called them to take action on it.
01:45:25.680 --> 01:45:27.680
He was preparing them from the second he got the mic.
01:45:27.840 --> 01:45:29.439
He knew where he was laying in the plane.
01:45:29.600 --> 01:45:31.119
What are you going for that night?
01:45:31.279 --> 01:45:36.720
If it's divine healing, tonight I'm gonna preach, and at the end, I'm gonna give an invitation for those that came in here sick.
01:45:36.880 --> 01:45:38.880
I'm gonna lay hands on you and believe for God to heal you.
01:45:38.960 --> 01:45:40.079
After point one, say it again.
01:45:40.159 --> 01:45:43.039
That's why tonight I'm gonna lay hands on people that came in here sick.
01:45:43.119 --> 01:45:48.399
You're building their faith, you're letting them know you're not sneaking in an invitation at the end when no one knew you were gonna give one.
01:45:48.640 --> 01:45:49.600
Preach for a result.
01:45:49.760 --> 01:45:50.640
Can you say amen?
01:45:51.119 --> 01:45:55.840
Number seven, how you preach, and number eight, the intake valves, and this is it.
01:45:56.079 --> 01:45:57.439
Your altar ministry.
01:45:57.600 --> 01:46:02.479
The Bible says in Mark, Matthew chapter nine, Jesus taught, then preached, then healed.
01:46:03.119 --> 01:46:05.199
So teaching and preaching is not an end to itself.
01:46:05.279 --> 01:46:08.399
If you close a message and dismiss in prayer, you missed it.
01:46:09.439 --> 01:46:12.399
There should be something that the preaching produces.
01:46:13.199 --> 01:46:24.800
And so you give a time for that, and then if you have, now if you'll combine those two, if you'll preach the word strong and then have strong altar ministry, don't pond it off on your prayer partners.
01:46:25.279 --> 01:46:26.399
Minister to people.
01:46:26.880 --> 01:46:27.920
Get people healed.
01:46:28.079 --> 01:46:31.279
Somebody getting healed of cancer spreads fast.
01:46:32.000 --> 01:46:36.079
Somebody getting healed of multiple sclerosis spreads fast.
01:46:36.319 --> 01:46:43.199
Somebody that was wheelchair bound for six and a half years that they now see in town walking, word spreads fast.
01:46:43.840 --> 01:46:48.159
There was a guy that came to our church in Pittsburgh and I said, Who invited you?
01:46:48.319 --> 01:46:50.079
He said, My Uber driver.
01:46:50.239 --> 01:46:51.520
I said, Oh, who is it?
01:46:51.680 --> 01:46:54.640
I said, he said, he said he doesn't go to your church.
01:46:55.920 --> 01:46:57.199
So how did he invite you?
01:46:57.359 --> 01:47:05.039
He said he drove by your sign when he was taking me from the airport that said a home for signs and wonders, and said, if you go to church, you should go to that church on Sunday.
01:47:05.119 --> 01:47:06.319
People get healed there.
01:47:06.640 --> 01:47:08.159
And then that's when he asked him, Do you go?
01:47:08.239 --> 01:47:10.159
He said, No, I don't go to church, I'm not a Christian.
01:47:10.319 --> 01:47:15.680
But that Uber driver, enough people had got healed in Pittsburgh that people were evangelizing for our church.
01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:17.760
It's Acts chapter 5 all over again.
01:47:17.920 --> 01:47:23.520
The whole company held them in high esteem, though no one dared join them because people were being healed.
01:47:23.680 --> 01:47:24.720
Can I tell you something?
01:47:24.880 --> 01:47:28.399
From today, you will have power present in your meetings.
01:47:28.560 --> 01:47:32.399
People will come in with diseases, but they'll leave without those diseases.
01:47:32.560 --> 01:47:40.960
You will not just be an orator, you will carry God's power everywhere you go, and it will mark your ministry and set it apart for God.
01:47:41.039 --> 01:47:43.359
If you believe it, can you say aloud, Amen?
01:47:43.680 --> 01:47:45.520
Lift your hands all over this place.
01:47:45.680 --> 01:47:47.600
I bless you in the name of Jesus.
01:47:47.760 --> 01:47:50.960
I bless your ministries in the name of Jesus.
01:47:51.199 --> 01:47:54.079
From today, things will be different.
01:47:54.399 --> 01:48:05.520
Any barrier that the enemy has erected to shut your ministry down or to cause it to not be accomplished, to not make impact.
01:48:05.760 --> 01:48:08.640
Those barriers are declared broken today.
01:48:09.119 --> 01:48:14.800
You will honor the command of God to be fruitful and multiply in your ministry.
01:48:14.960 --> 01:48:21.760
And you won't run all over the world and all over your state, leading other people's kids to grace while you lose your own.
01:48:22.000 --> 01:48:27.920
Your family will be standing right with you when you make heaven after you finish your course on this earth.
01:48:28.239 --> 01:48:32.720
In Jesus' name, and you'll never lack.
01:48:33.119 --> 01:48:37.119
You will never lack in Jesus' name.
01:48:37.920 --> 01:48:39.600
All God's people said, Amen.
01:48:40.479 --> 01:48:41.840
Let me tell you this too.
01:48:42.239 --> 01:48:43.279
You can be seated.
01:48:43.520 --> 01:48:44.479
Say this out loud.
01:48:44.640 --> 01:48:47.920
It's important how you leave a service.
01:48:48.720 --> 01:48:50.079
I don't know who.
01:48:52.640 --> 01:48:53.199
What?
01:48:54.560 --> 01:48:59.039
Where in the Bible people got it from that a service has to end down?
01:49:01.840 --> 01:49:03.920
End your service up.
01:49:04.960 --> 01:49:07.039
Give me a give me a Semblies of God piano.
01:49:07.199 --> 01:49:08.720
I'm gonna go into my last point.
01:49:08.960 --> 01:49:17.760
So as we so do people preach hard, then they feel like, I don't know who taught it, or they've heard other people, they feel like, even if they were doing like what Jakes was doing, wake up, wake up.
01:49:17.920 --> 01:49:22.000
And now as we close, you let the air of the balloon.
01:49:22.079 --> 01:49:24.640
Your sermon should be like this, not like this.
01:49:25.520 --> 01:49:39.359
Nosedive at the end, and then your musicians come up unasked and trot up like a horde of rhinoceroses and start playing slow music, and everybody starts getting their jackets on, and you have created an atmosphere of like decline.
01:49:39.520 --> 01:49:41.359
So let's let me give you an example of what not to do.
01:49:41.520 --> 01:49:42.720
This assembly's a god.
01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:48.159
Um so as I go to my third and final point, no, more depressed.
01:49:48.239 --> 01:49:50.159
You're gonna have to fight through your victories.
01:49:51.279 --> 01:49:55.199
Yeah, you gotta do like something that makes you want to kill yourself.
01:49:58.880 --> 01:49:59.760
As we close today.
01:50:00.640 --> 01:50:02.079
Turn up a little bit so people can hear.
01:50:02.239 --> 01:50:03.680
Yes, that's a good, that's a good one.
01:50:03.840 --> 01:50:04.960
You got me now.
01:50:06.079 --> 01:50:14.479
So as we close today, as we preach on healing, um, and actually, when the piano player gets up to do that, even if the preacher was going up, it's like the musicians.
01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:19.119
Let me tell you something while I'm while I'm getting wound up.
01:50:20.399 --> 01:50:21.920
I can't remember where I was at.
01:50:22.079 --> 01:50:24.880
It was one of the churches that we started, one of the other three.
01:50:25.119 --> 01:50:27.920
I preached on joy and praise hard.
01:50:28.960 --> 01:50:30.319
It's hard to do.
01:50:31.920 --> 01:50:33.199
It's the whitest you ever felt.
01:50:33.279 --> 01:50:34.000
You're gonna come back tonight?
01:50:34.640 --> 01:50:37.760
You're gonna come back tonight in a Brooks Brother shirt and penny loafers.
01:50:40.000 --> 01:50:42.720
So I preached on joy and praise hard.
01:50:42.800 --> 01:50:45.680
And then I hear this kind of piano behind me.
01:50:46.079 --> 01:50:49.279
And I turned around and I said, Were you in the service?
01:50:50.640 --> 01:50:54.960
And the guy, I I was saying it like um, what are they uh rhetorically?
01:50:55.039 --> 01:50:56.640
Like I thought he went like this.
01:50:57.119 --> 01:51:03.359
And then I found out all the musicians were in the lobby having breakfast during the preaching because they had to get there early.
01:51:03.520 --> 01:51:04.720
Do you know they charge?
01:51:05.039 --> 01:51:07.359
We were paying musicians because we just started a church.
01:51:07.600 --> 01:51:09.439
You you they charge for the whole day.
01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:10.800
We had to get here early and set up.
01:51:10.880 --> 01:51:20.960
I know, but you but you are working, so you're out there having bagels that I'm paying for, and then come back and play some drivel on the keyboard because you weren't in the service and you're not flowing.
01:51:21.039 --> 01:51:23.439
I said, get off the keyboard and don't ever come back to my church.
01:51:23.680 --> 01:51:26.880
And I'm not paying you full full full day, I'm paying you half day.
01:51:27.119 --> 01:51:32.000
Yeah, I'm not saying you have to do that, but I got a little bit of a Saddam Hussein said to me.
01:51:35.600 --> 01:51:37.600
So, yeah, keep going.
01:51:39.039 --> 01:51:41.600
Memorize this and don't play it.
01:51:44.960 --> 01:51:45.680
How many?
01:51:45.760 --> 01:51:50.239
So that so somebody preached their guts out on healing for 40 minutes, then you got this.
01:51:50.720 --> 01:51:52.720
No one is getting healed to this music.
01:51:52.960 --> 01:51:54.399
Do you know what happens to this music?
01:51:54.560 --> 01:51:56.960
The credits at the end of the Hallmark channel.
01:51:57.199 --> 01:51:58.079
Come on.
01:52:02.720 --> 01:52:05.439
How are you gonna pray for the sick with this music?
01:52:05.840 --> 01:52:08.800
And so, this is this is my impression of T.D.
01:52:08.880 --> 01:52:10.079
Jakes if you had this music.
01:52:10.319 --> 01:52:16.800
Wake up! Wake wake up, wake up, wake up.
01:52:17.119 --> 01:52:28.560
And so, as we go our separate ways today, Lord, give us traveling mercies and help us to remember to mask up during this season of Hantavirus and just be with us where we're at today as we go our separate ways.
01:52:28.720 --> 01:52:35.520
Now, when you close a service out like this, how people leave a place determines whether they come back or not.
01:52:35.760 --> 01:52:39.520
So when people leave to this, it's like, no, it's good.
01:52:39.760 --> 01:52:42.720
Maybe we'll come back uh in the summer or something.
01:52:42.880 --> 01:52:44.399
Let's go get something to eat.
01:52:44.640 --> 01:52:51.840
Now, when you do what the Bible says in Psalm 150, and by the way, it's not stylistically, I'm from the suburbs of Bridgeville.
01:52:51.920 --> 01:53:02.079
I'm not black, I'm not from a church of God in Christ Church, and it has nothing to do with black culture because the book of Psalms was written to Hebrew people, Israelites.
01:53:02.319 --> 01:53:04.319
It is God's way of doing things.
01:53:04.479 --> 01:53:16.159
I will enter his gates with, I'll come into his courts with, and then on the way out, give thanks for all things, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
01:53:16.319 --> 01:53:21.439
There it's a time to worship, but the time, how are you gonna call people to get saved with that kind of music?
01:53:21.520 --> 01:53:24.800
It's like whatever this music is attached to, I don't want it.
01:53:25.359 --> 01:53:26.720
It's funeral music.
01:53:26.960 --> 01:53:30.640
Now, if Jesus never got up from the tomb, we should play music like that.
01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:39.039
That's why Hindu music is sad and negative, uh, minor keys, Buddhist music sad and minor keys, religious music sad and minor keys.
01:53:39.199 --> 01:53:46.079
The thing we have as spirit-filled Christians is a shout of praise, a garment of praise.
01:53:50.000 --> 01:53:53.359
No, no, no, play in the opposite spirit.
01:53:57.520 --> 01:53:59.199
And um, you know why I'm doing this?
01:53:59.279 --> 01:54:03.680
Because some of you, even even preaching on that, would still have somebody doing that.
01:54:08.399 --> 01:54:12.000
They don't have any praise, they don't have any joy.
01:54:12.319 --> 01:54:16.960
Get musicians that have joy, get musicians that have victory.
01:54:17.199 --> 01:54:18.560
Can you say amen?
01:54:22.079 --> 01:54:25.199
Now, now we'll do it right.
01:54:26.239 --> 01:54:34.880
So when you close a when you close a service right, now think of leaving to this kind of music, dealer's choice.
01:55:07.119 --> 01:55:24.000
Those keys that he's in, we'll work if black fingers are in them, Asian fingers, light fingers, Sri Lankan fingers, Pakistani fingers, Nashir fingers, Moroccan fingers, any fingers can hit those keys.
01:55:24.239 --> 01:55:28.000
Praise is an erase, praise is a command from the Bible.
01:55:28.159 --> 01:55:33.680
Give me praise, shout out to God with the voice of triumph, the devil is defeated.
01:55:50.319 --> 01:55:51.199
Powerful.
01:55:52.399 --> 01:55:54.640
You have to have that element at your church.
01:55:55.439 --> 01:56:00.960
I'm not saying uh, you know, well, we're not really I don't want to hear it.
01:56:01.119 --> 01:56:04.000
There has to be some kind of praise in your church.
01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:07.039
Don't make an excuse for what color you are.
01:56:07.760 --> 01:56:08.800
We're not really of that tradition.
01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:09.359
What tradition?
01:56:09.439 --> 01:56:10.800
You're not of the book of Psalms?
01:56:11.920 --> 01:56:15.039
If you don't have praise in your ministry, your ministry will not grow.
01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:25.119
Because praise carries a power to it that destroys enemy walls, levels jerichos, knocks off prison chains, and opens prison doors.
01:56:25.600 --> 01:56:26.880
Can you say amen?
01:56:28.560 --> 01:56:33.439
And I'm sure soaking worship has its place and all that, but you better have some praise.
01:56:33.680 --> 01:56:35.760
I'll enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart.
01:56:35.840 --> 01:56:36.880
I'll come into his courts with praise.
01:56:36.960 --> 01:56:39.920
You can't even get into God's presence until you've praised him.
01:56:40.079 --> 01:56:47.760
So let's lift our hands and take 15 seconds and just begin to praise God that your ministry is going to explode the second half of this year.
01:56:48.000 --> 01:56:56.319
In Jesus' name, let every ministry double this year, let it double in attendance, let the finances double to keep up with the growth of the people.
01:56:56.560 --> 01:56:58.560
We praise you for it ahead of time.
01:56:58.720 --> 01:57:00.800
We have the victory ahead of time.
01:57:01.119 --> 01:57:03.279
We take it now by faith.
01:57:05.520 --> 01:57:11.039
In Jesus' name, everybody said, Give Jesus the biggest hand clean shop.
01:57:11.600 --> 01:57:14.640
Come on, give Jesus the biggest handclap.
01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:17.439
The biggest shout.
01:57:24.800 --> 01:57:25.840
Say it out loud.
01:57:26.079 --> 01:57:28.640
I will finish services.
01:57:29.920 --> 01:57:33.199
Up happy and filled with joy.
01:57:34.159 --> 01:57:35.199
Praise God.
01:57:36.079 --> 01:57:38.800
Don't make it a dirge on the way out.
01:57:39.920 --> 01:57:45.920
When you get up to the close of service and your press keyboard play gets about, you start playing the closing credits music to Friday the 13th.
01:57:46.159 --> 01:57:47.119
Have a talk with them.
01:57:47.199 --> 01:57:48.960
You don't have to do it in the mic in front, but tell them.
01:57:49.680 --> 01:57:51.279
We're gonna close up from now on.
01:57:51.520 --> 01:57:52.800
Pick a happy song.
01:57:52.880 --> 01:57:54.800
I don't care if it's happy birthday.
01:57:55.039 --> 01:57:56.319
Play something happy.
01:57:56.560 --> 01:57:57.600
Can you say amen?
01:57:57.760 --> 01:58:00.079
Give the Lord another hand clap, you can be seated.
01:58:01.840 --> 01:58:04.640
Um, I want to take questions from ministers.
01:58:04.800 --> 01:58:05.520
I'll take three.
01:58:05.600 --> 01:58:06.560
It's 1240.
01:58:06.640 --> 01:58:15.760
I won't keep you here past one o'clock, but I want to take questions from ministers that are here, something that piqued your interest or that you'd like further explanation on, and I'm happy to help you.
01:58:16.000 --> 01:58:17.279
This is a little bit of a different meeting.
01:58:17.359 --> 01:58:20.720
This is ministers and leaders meeting tonight's revival.
01:58:21.039 --> 01:58:21.760
But I'll help you.
01:58:21.840 --> 01:58:23.840
Any questions you have on church growth?
01:58:24.239 --> 01:58:26.880
Just in case there's someone in here who doesn't know everything.
01:58:28.159 --> 01:58:29.920
Go ahead and third row.
01:58:30.720 --> 01:58:32.319
Just they're gonna give you the mic for online.
01:58:33.920 --> 01:58:36.640
Can you clarify what you said about the intake valve?
01:58:36.720 --> 01:58:39.760
You went to number eight and said the intake valve, but we didn't touch it much.
01:58:40.159 --> 01:58:40.640
Eight.
01:58:41.199 --> 01:58:44.239
The intake valves are uh seven and eight.
01:58:44.399 --> 01:58:47.199
How you preach and your alter ministry.
01:58:47.840 --> 01:59:01.359
So I have one utilize social media, two, don't sit sidestep fasting and prayer, three, refuse to be entangled in civilian affairs, four, don't be a nothing, stand for something, five, reject anti-growth mindsets, six reject an entitlement mindset, and then the intake valves.
01:59:01.680 --> 01:59:04.399
Seven, how you preach, and eight, your alter ministry.
01:59:04.640 --> 01:59:06.319
Those will grow a church.
01:59:09.119 --> 01:59:09.920
I mean, T.D.
01:59:10.000 --> 01:59:15.680
Jakeson, his prime, had to move from Charleston, West Virginia to Dallas because there was no more room when he had his conferences.
01:59:15.840 --> 01:59:18.399
People were staying in hotels in six surrounding states.
01:59:18.560 --> 01:59:22.079
Charleston, West Virginia couldn't hold the amount of people that were coming to his conferences.
01:59:23.359 --> 01:59:28.479
And his preaching was so powerful, his whole congregation moved from West Virginia to Dallas.
01:59:29.680 --> 01:59:30.560
That's preaching.
01:59:30.880 --> 01:59:35.199
So that's how you have powerful preaching is because he didn't really lay hands on people much or anything.
01:59:35.439 --> 01:59:37.279
Just that kind of preaching.
01:59:38.000 --> 01:59:39.279
Can you say amen?
01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:40.479
Good?
01:59:41.119 --> 01:59:41.760
Good question.
01:59:42.000 --> 01:59:42.640
Who else?
01:59:42.880 --> 01:59:45.199
In case there's another person who doesn't know everything.
01:59:45.439 --> 01:59:46.000
Good.
01:59:46.960 --> 01:59:51.039
Should there be a time when you just teach and should there be a time when you just preach?
01:59:51.600 --> 01:59:54.319
Well, you know, you can be a teacher.
01:59:55.680 --> 01:59:58.399
Um there's nothing wrong with that.
01:59:58.720 --> 02:00:00.159
Andrew Womack is a teacher.
02:00:00.319 --> 02:00:03.600
It's like if I could sit down with Andrew Womack, I'd say, now listen, you need to start preaching.
02:00:03.760 --> 02:00:09.119
He's built a huge ministry with worldwide impact off teaching, as have a lot of other people.
02:00:09.600 --> 02:00:16.399
But um, so you can teach your whole ministry, but then I would supplement it by having in preachers.
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That's why if you have a church and you haven't had in a guest speaker in like two years, something's wrong with you.
02:00:22.000 --> 02:00:25.439
Because you think you think you like, you know, I a guy said that to my father.
02:00:25.520 --> 02:00:29.840
I've never had an evangelist in because I feel like anything they do, either me or my associate pastors could do.
02:00:30.399 --> 02:00:36.720
Your associate pastor can do what Reinhardt Bonkey does, and you shouldn't start having him do uh million man outreaches in your county.
02:00:37.760 --> 02:00:38.800
Can you say amen?
02:00:39.359 --> 02:00:42.079
So then you supplement what you're not with other people.
02:00:42.239 --> 02:00:49.600
In fact, I had Pastor Michael Howe do our Sunday in Texas yes uh last week for the first time.
02:00:49.680 --> 02:00:51.439
I'm gonna start having him do once a month.
02:00:51.600 --> 02:00:56.239
I told him, you know, I want you to teach.
02:00:56.319 --> 02:00:57.359
He's a teacher.
02:00:57.600 --> 02:00:59.520
It it'll supplement what I do.
02:00:59.760 --> 02:01:02.800
Steak's great, but you don't eat it every day.
02:01:03.600 --> 02:01:04.479
I'm in Kentucky.
02:01:04.560 --> 02:01:06.000
Maybe you eat it every day.
02:01:06.239 --> 02:01:08.319
But uh you supplement.
02:01:08.479 --> 02:01:11.920
So teach, be you, but then bring other people in who do what you don't do.
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If you don't have a great ministry or track record of getting sick people ill, bring in somebody that does.
02:01:17.359 --> 02:01:21.279
And supplement your church with outside gifts, and then it becomes well-rounded.
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Does that help?
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But be be what you are.
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Next, go ahead.
02:01:26.960 --> 02:01:28.640
Good questions, everybody.
02:01:29.119 --> 02:01:30.800
You enjoyed today slightly?
02:01:33.680 --> 02:01:39.359
So, observing your videos from the past to now, you obviously have expanded.
02:01:39.600 --> 02:01:40.560
You have grown.
02:01:40.640 --> 02:01:44.960
You know, you could see the whole production change or just your whole you know, brand and everything.
02:01:45.119 --> 02:01:51.840
What do you do personally to when you feel plateau because every ministry goes through a cap and evolves again and again?
02:01:52.000 --> 02:01:58.800
What do you do personally to continue to be more um innovative per se or more expanding in my mindset?
02:01:59.039 --> 02:02:01.760
I have a terrible answer to your question.
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Because I've literally in the last seven years or eight years, have never tried to grow.
02:02:13.439 --> 02:02:16.560
I just do what the Lord speaks to me to do and it grows.
02:02:16.880 --> 02:02:24.800
And I actually would have been happy to have one church in Pittsburgh and would have guaranteed you I wouldn't start a second church.
02:02:25.039 --> 02:02:27.920
I would have told you, you can take it to the bank.
02:02:28.079 --> 02:02:32.239
In fact, I'd have told you in 2019, I'll never pastor a church.
02:02:32.319 --> 02:02:33.520
I'm an evangelist.
02:02:33.680 --> 02:02:38.079
But the he who uses well what he's been given, he'll be given even more and have an abundance.
02:02:38.319 --> 02:02:41.520
So when you do well, the Lord, the Lord puts more on your plate.
02:02:41.680 --> 02:02:45.199
Dad Hayward Mill says the reward for good work is more work.
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And so build me a strong church in Pittsburgh.
02:02:47.680 --> 02:02:57.119
Then I, as clear as day, a year and four months after that, when I was preaching in Fort Worth, I want you to do something down here and build a church.
02:02:57.439 --> 02:02:59.920
And uh two, I don't know how to do that.
02:03:00.079 --> 02:03:01.279
That's when the jet came.
02:03:01.359 --> 02:03:03.039
I never believed for it or confessed for it.
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It's like anytime I hear the voice of the Lord, everything's just there.
02:03:09.760 --> 02:03:13.760
And so, and then I flew to uh LA, felt the same thing.
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Then that hit.
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And then I was flying over Arizona to LA every week to go preach there, and I'd wake up out of a dead sleep and look down, and there's the city of Phoenix.
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I want you to start a church there.
02:03:25.279 --> 02:03:26.880
I thought, okay, like next year.
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No, now.
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Okay, soon.
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Third week.
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No, not soon, now.
02:03:32.880 --> 02:03:34.560
Then I announced it on Saturday night.
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I said, next Saturday morning, we start Revival Today Church in Arizona because of how strong the Lord spoke to me.
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Five days' notice, Kofi was sitting in the front row and he went like this when I said it.
02:03:45.039 --> 02:03:46.319
And then I noticed he was gone.
02:03:46.399 --> 02:03:47.199
I said, and I went referenced.
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I said, where did Pastor Kofi go?
02:03:48.640 --> 02:03:51.840
They said he's in the hall calling, trying to get a venue for next week.
02:03:52.000 --> 02:03:55.760
And we had 183 people show up on five days' notice.
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We had a six-man greeter team, a four-man security team, and a media team.
02:04:01.840 --> 02:04:03.920
It's supernatural.
02:04:04.079 --> 02:04:06.800
In Arizona, I'd never done meetings there, ever.
02:04:07.520 --> 02:04:08.960
But the Lord did it.
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And so everything has just been.
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I'll tell you this.
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When I do the 21 days of fasting and prayer, I used to go into it with goals.
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Now I just get instruction.
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What do you have for me to do this year?
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And then I pay attention to the instruction.
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I mean, if you listen to my December 31st message, I said Iran's gonna come open and Venezuela's gonna come open to the gospel.
02:04:32.159 --> 02:04:35.119
And I you can find me saying a year ago, we'll be the first ones to go in.
02:04:35.279 --> 02:04:38.399
Of course, Paul and Nietzsche beat me to the punch, to which I'll never forgive him.
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He'll be there in June, but I'll be there in August 1st.
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And I I could feel it going in that direction, and I got ready for it, and I'm already ready to go and Iran.
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I just do what it is instructed, and everything's provided.
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Whereas if you do it the opposite way, which is take the principles of faith and try to use that to make your goals happen, it'll work, but it's harder.
02:04:59.199 --> 02:05:04.319
And you can you can try dragging God to help you with things he's not interested in helping with.
02:05:04.479 --> 02:05:08.800
I was fasting and praying one time in a week of meetings because the the meeting wasn't going good.
02:05:08.960 --> 02:05:10.479
I said, Lord, help help me.
02:05:10.640 --> 02:05:13.439
Help me, help let send a revival to this church, help me.
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And I felt the Lord speak to me about the third time I said it.
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Who said I want to breathe life into this church?
02:05:18.239 --> 02:05:19.520
In other words, I'm not happy.
02:05:19.680 --> 02:05:20.720
I don't like this church.
02:05:20.960 --> 02:05:22.479
You never asked me about preaching there.
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You just went and preaching and trying to get me to bless something I don't like.
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I don't know what was wrong with it.
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I know the the church doesn't exist today, but uh you can try to use the principles of faith to make something happen that God's not interested in doing.
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For example, is God willing that none should perish?
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Yes.
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Does he want a lot of people to get saved?
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Yes.
02:05:44.159 --> 02:05:50.880
So then on that guys, you could rent the University of Kentucky Stadium, and it's hard raising the money.
02:05:51.119 --> 02:05:56.479
And you're on Instagram, you know, we got a week to go, we still need$1.1 million if you could give.
02:05:56.720 --> 02:06:04.079
It's hard because, yes, you're operating on the general principles of Scripture, but God could be up in heaven saying, Did I send you?
02:06:05.279 --> 02:06:13.840
If God tells you to go to Nineveh to preach and you go to Kansas City, you're not gonna have all the animals fast 40 days and 40 nights and the whole city turn in 40 days.
02:06:14.000 --> 02:06:24.159
But when you go to where God sent you, go to Kareth Brook, drink from the brook, and eat what the ravens bring you, for I have commanded them to bring you food.
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Then the money just comes, everything just comes.
02:06:27.760 --> 02:06:29.840
So getting divine instruction.
02:06:30.319 --> 02:06:38.479
And then I have a chapter in my book, not to sound like Eric Metaxis, but I have a chapter in my book on um the 20 laws that govern the financial anointing.
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Chapter three is the law of contentment, which probably should be number one.
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Be content.
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This sounds like schizophrenic.
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Push to grow, have a desire to grow, and at the same time be content where you're at.
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Be content with who don't want another man's field.
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You know, Lord, I could be much bigger if you'd let me show you.
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That's how you end up getting into debt and stuff.
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God, I'm much bigger than I think than you think I am.
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Let me show you.
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Let me have a uh key bank help me or whoever, and I'll show you.
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I can do a lot for you.
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Be content where God has you signed, do your best in that, and as you do that, to he who uses well what he's been given, he'll be given even more and have an abundance.
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Can you say amen?
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Does that help?
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I know it's almost like a non-answer.
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Those are the kind of answers I hated when I was like in my twenties.
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I'm like, no, tell me how to grow.
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But it's just hear and do.
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Next.
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Where did you guys come from?
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You're in the ministry?
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What brought you here?
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What do you do what do you do in Chicago?
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Interesting.
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I'm glad you're here.
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You go back when.
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All right, good.
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I'll see you before the week's out.
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Uh as a young minister, aside from- He tried to grab the microphone, but they won't give it to him.
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He has stolen several microphones this week.
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Go ahead.
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As a young minister, aside from reading the word, prayer, and fasting, what's the best thing I can do to prepare for ministry?
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Have you been to Bible college?
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Okay.
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I will tell you, it's interesting you brought up reading the word.
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I've been thinking about this a lot.
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Not that there should ever be a time that you stop studying the word, but there should be a stretch from about 20 to 30, 20 years old to 30 years old, where you tear the thing apart.
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I mean, like anybody you meet that's anything in the ministry, they had a time where they were just in the Bible like all the time, with notes and marked up.
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And um I would do that.
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I don't find a lot of guys in the 30 and younger age group that have had that where they know the Bible backwards and forwards.
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And like, not know it so you can argue with it, but just have it and have like God now has something He can pull up from you when it's time to speak.
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I'd stay in the Bible, I'd pray and fast, and I would watch preaching, and then the fourth thing I would add to it, I would go to meetings like you did like this.
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Hang around meetings that are Holy Ghost meetings, and good things happen there.
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You know, a lot of good things happen in Holy Ghost meetings.
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People feel people feel led to give you money.
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You know, it's weird.
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It's like just just like bad things happen at a club or a bar.
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Good things happen in Holy Ghost meetings.
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People, I don't know, it's just awesome.
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It's awesome hanging around church.
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Does that help?
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A little.
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I would do those four things.
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Is that your son?
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Good job.
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Praise the good son.
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I know people say it was all God, but I've met other Christian parents and they had the same God and their kids are terrible.
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So good job.
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Who's next?
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Good questions, by the way.
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So, in starting a church, yes, starting with praise and worship, we'll be starting individually.
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Sure.
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Uh that can be better.
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So, what's the allowance though of getting people coming to us?
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I can play, they got a talent, of course.
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Their lives they're living, but can they get touched by the Lord?
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Can they get profoundly saved, on fire, anointed?
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Do we those allowances, those opportunities, how how how lenient should we be on that?
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How lenient?
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My answer is, hmm.
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Go ahead, Sister Clarita.
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So your question is, do you give them grace to get their life together?
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Yeah, you just started church, you got musicians coming up offering to play.
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Yeah, just keep doing digital until they get some saved musicians.
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No.
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Yeah, I'm with you.
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And you know what?
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When I started, there were guys I made allowances for and thought as they serve, and they're all gone.
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So you can tell.
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One of the things about starting a church is not just the musicians, all kinds of people.
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Every, every quasi ministry in the forest comes out.
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We have a marriage ministry.
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Great.
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Go do it.
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You know, everybody wants to be a part of your church and do their ministry.
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I would be careful, but not repelling.
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And you know, let me give you a good story.
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Tony and Clarita, I had another worship leader, and he would not show up for things he was, you know, his full-time salary, not contracted to do.
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The church, the the city told us we could not meet in the building we were meeting in anymore.
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We weren't allowed to have Sunday service there anymore.
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So I called a group of services called 40 Days of Glory, where I decided to have 40 straight days of service in the church, which is just open rebellion.
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You can read about it in the founding of our country.
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So when I did that, they were living in Florida still, right?
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And then I knew they were flying up on Sundays from Florida just to do background singing and background keyboard playing.
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And then I'd see them while I was preaching.
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And so one night, I said, Do you guys did you guys move here?
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No, they said, No, we live in Florida.
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I said, What are you doing?
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I said we we flew up for the meetings.
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They weren't playing.
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Just to hear, just to be a part of the meetings.
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So pay attention to people that love your ministry that aren't being paid to love your ministry.
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And that should stand out to you.
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And then that's all I needed to know.
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You're flying Southwest Airlines from Tampa to Pittsburgh to come hear me preach with your kids.
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What do I need to know?
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Unpaid?
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I have a feeling I'm not gonna have any problems with you once I put you on the payroll.
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And I have it.
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And then I'll tell you another one.
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We had another worship leader hired for our church, or he's on a 21-day contract in Fort Worth, and I did 21 days of meetings to open the church, which I you have to do what the Lord speaks you to do, but I would recommend if you launch a church, not doing a hard launch, doing an extra hard launch.
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Because 21 days of meetings is like a year's worth of church services, plus you get momentum.
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Well, Pastor Michael and Pastor Sherry were coming every night.
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They weren't singing, they're Kenneth Copeland's worship leaders for his conferences.
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So it's not like they're like need work.
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And then they were bringing people every night families, business owners.
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And I then someone told me that's Kenneth Copeland's worship leader.
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And I thought, okay, you've been with Brother Copeland for a couple decades, you've never caused any problems.
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And then now you're bringing people to my meeting unpaid.
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And it's not that I don't like the worship leader, but I see something like what I saw in them.
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You care about this ministry, unpaid.
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So I'm making you the worship leader, and then we ended up making them the campus pastors.
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Pay it.
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And I feel like many times pastors get so focused on who doesn't like them and who left and who's mad that they miss great people that are there.
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Pay attention.
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Last Sunday, we recognized, and this is so like against my nature, but I just felt, you know, we recognized, I thought it's been four and a half years, there's families here that are never not here.
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They're such a huge help.
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I want to recognize them from the platform.
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So we recognize three different families, always here, serving in the house of God.
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Pay attention to who's with you, not who's not with you.
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When the rich young ruler went away and wouldn't do what Jesus said, Jesus watched him go and spent more time with the guys that were with him.
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Focus on who's with you, not who's not with you.
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Can you say amen?
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So that that helps, right?
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Pay attention to who's there and coming and stuff.
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And God will send people.
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And we're starting a worship school in September for that reason.
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So you'll have people to drive from that have uh uh their spirit.
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One more.
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Go ahead.
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Name and where you live.
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Good.
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Yes, sir.
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Um, at what point in your ministry do you transition from letting people surf with you or start hiring them to be with you, especially for crusades or even just in your staff?
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What and also like, are there positions that you always leave open without pay for people to just serve, or do you always hire when they go with you?
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For me, when people are being asked to do so much at the church that they can't work, then then you need to pay them.
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Tony and Cliter are paid full-time, they can't work.
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If I didn't, if I made them volunteer, now they're happy to serve the Lord.
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I'm sure they've done lots of things in the ministry unpaid.
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But it's not fair to them and their family for me to be like, hey, I need you on the road with me 48 weeks a year.
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What about where to live and and and my kids?
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Well, you're gonna have to just trust God.
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You know, I heard my my dad's youngest brother said something one time that made me laugh because he was with a minister and he got hired at a church, and he said, What are they gonna pay you?
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He said, They told me to just um come by faith.
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And he said, Tell the pastor for him to get some faith and pay you.
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So full-time work should get paid.
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You know, you shouldn't have to live in poverty because um you're a volunteer, but you're expected to be here 80 hours a week.
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That's not right.
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A labor is worthy of his hire.
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And then volunteer is volunteer.
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Greeters should not have to be paid.
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You know, they're there Sunday, they've chosen to serve.
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People want to serve at church, people want to get involved, so you give them ability to do it, help with media.
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But if you're asking somebody to be there 8 a.m.
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till 6 p.m., six days a week, you know, I don't know.
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I feel like looking at some of the pastors, I'm messing up your ministries, but if people are happy to do it, you know, somebody's retired or whatever, um, and they're they don't want paid, that's cool.
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But I I would say have faith to bless people.
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Treat people.
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Maybe for me, I do it a little over the other way because I grew up in ministry and just watched everybody get abused and not have anything to eat, and their cars held together by K-Love bumper stickers.
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And I thought, if I'm ever the leader, I want to make sure that it's a blessing to be a part of the ministry, not a step down.
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Can you say amen?
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And one thing I'll say that has really blessed me is we have had people that we've hired, we have almost 90 full-time staff now.
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Um, we might be over 90, but a lot of the people, their parents, weren't Christians or were barely in church and were against their kid coming to work for us.
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Then they came and visited them like eight months after they started working here for Christmas, and they came and saw their son driving a nice car and living in a nice condo with good furniture and the him and the wife happy, and they got saved and moved up there and came to the church because it threw them off.
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That it's a it's not the pastor's driving a Cadillac Escalade and has a jet, and his staff has a guy pulling them in a rickshaw.
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Everybody should get blessed.
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Can you say amen?
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And like that business principle, leaders eat last, you know, bless blessed, bless people.
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In fact, every year we do um a staff bonus for Christmas, financial bonus, except for me and Adallas.
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Because I already have.
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People hand me money all the time.
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And so it's just you know, I I'm not in this, I don't have a my birthday celebrated at the church.
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I don't have what no eye has seen, make sure it's on um my anniversary or Adas's birthday so we can take an offering from me.
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You'd be amazed in the ministry if you walk away from money and and make no effort to get any, how much God will give you.
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God will give you more than you would have schemed to get yourself.
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Can you say amen?
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I was just at a house a couple weeks ago and met with a guy and his wife.
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And on my way out, he said, I want to give you something before you go and handed me a check for$100,000.
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He said, I've already given to your ministry, but that's for you personally.
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Do you know any people that have to get signed up for some stupid course to make a hundred thousand dollars?
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And God will just give it to you for free if you get the word out and bless people.
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Can you say amen?
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So um, who asked the question again?
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You.
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That's a delicate question.
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There's different church cultures, but let me leave it with this.
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You being a pastor is not a license to abuse people.
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And I'm not talking you gotta pay everybody full time and all that.
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People want to volunteer and help.
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But let me ask you a question.
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We have Revival Today Church, we're gonna have the School of Worship in September, and we have the Bible college.
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So I have 75 students there right now that would be happy to come over to my house and do anything I ask them to do.
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Is it right to take Bible college students that have paid tuition and use them to help me farm on my property and sell food for profit?
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No.
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Is it right?
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I had Ben that's with me.
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I asked him to come over with his pickup truck, I cleaned my closet out, and uh, I don't mean I came out as gay, I mean I took clothes from my closet that I couldn't fit in anymore.
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So I made you laugh harder than I thought.
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Um and I had I loaded his pickup truck flatbed full of clothes.
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I mean, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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All my suit, I left myself with about 23 articles of clothing and just cleared it all out and gave it to the Bible college students.
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I paid him 500 bucks for coming to pick it up and load it and go back.
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That's not part of his job.
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He's on media team.
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So because you hired a youth pastor doesn't mean they're also your landscaper at your house.
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I'm talking about.
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I had a guy on staff, I won't say we'll call him Anthony because that was his name.
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And uh we hired him.
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We hired him as an associate pastor, not him.
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And I came back to church from the road, and he was walking to his car, and he had two Bible college students.
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One was carrying his uh dry cleaning and the other one was carrying his briefcase.
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And I said, Hey, while they were walking.
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I said, What are those two guys doing?
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I said, Is that your dry cleaning and your briefcase?
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He said, Yeah, they just wanted to help me.
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I said, I don't care if they wanted to help you or not.
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Carry your own dry cleaning in your bag.
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I said, Where did you learn to get two servants to carry your stuff?
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I didn't even get that from me.
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And he's no longer with us, and he's no longer uh last I checked on Instagram, going to heaven.
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Yeah, because some people want to go into ministry to just abuse people.
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And if you're willing to help yourself to people, that's where sex comes in and stuff, because you feel like you can just use people for your own gain.
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They're God's people that he's entrusted into your care, and you should take care of them like they're God's children.
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They don't owe you anything.
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Can you say amen?
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Now I understand I come from the assemblies of God that is the king of dishonoring ministers.
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That they go the opposite way.
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They don't care if you get paid, they don't care if you have anything to eat.
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If you're watching from the assemblies, uh, I know that hurts your feelings, but again, I stand by everything I said.
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There's no there's, you know, an assemblies of God church for pastor appreciation, a church of 800 will give their pastor a$100 gift certificate to Applebee's.
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They don't do any honor.
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But there is a middle ground.
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There's a middle ground between treating the pastor like crap and the pastor being like Benito Mussolini, that all the people serve him, and there's the wife's birthday offering.
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I called a pastor.
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His church never grew.
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He had about 120, 140 people, and he met in a hotel ballroom.
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And I watched his service, and it was Mother's Day.
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Mother's Day, we want to present a gift to his wife for Mother's Day.
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And then Father's Day, they presented, we don't present as a great gift to our pastor.
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I said, how come all the honoring is to you?
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I said, you have 120 people in a ballroom.
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You don't deserve flowers, you're just starting.
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I said, don't you think it would be a better idea that would grow the church if you called three mothers up, one that's a single mother, and bless them and recognize their.
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Why are you trying to get the people to honor you?
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Bless the people.
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Don't try to get ministry's not a way to try to get the people to bless you.
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And I'm telling you that as somebody, you take all the people's pastor appreciations day, and they're not gonna take in 10% of what I've had people give me, not asking for it.
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If you walk away from it, people will give you what you didn't have what you wouldn't have given yourself.
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If you try to go after it, you capp yourself off.
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Can you say amen?
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My wife does not go down to the front row and then have some little servant with a tray bring her a Starbucks and take her Louis Vuitton purse, like she's the queen coming in 15 minutes late with an entourage.
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It's ridiculous.
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I'll tell you another thing.
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God bless West Africa, it's probably my favorite place to preach.
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When I go over there and somebody hits the deck in front of me and says, stand up, don't bow to me.
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I'm your brother in Christ.
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I know you respect me.
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You don't have to put your face on the ground.
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Can you say amen?
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There's a medium because you're gonna get into trouble if you I'm the man of God.
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Yeah, I am the man of God.
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And if you won't stand up when I tell you to stand up and praise, I'll throw you out of the meeting.
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But I'm not gonna make you do things for me.
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Who wants forced honor?
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Who wants to get$60,000 from your staff because they texted all your staff three different times that they're taking an offering for Pastor John?
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We would ask you to at least contribute to that.
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Who wants that money?
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God doesn't.
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God said, What you do, do it willingly, or don't do it at all.
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So if people want to honor me for being their pastor, they're free to do it anytime they want.
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There will never be a time where I make them honor me.
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Can you say amen?
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Is there a verse in the Bible or not where Jesus said, Woe unto you, who seek honor one from another, instead of the honor that comes from God?
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Is that a verse or is it not a verse?
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And there's some people, all they do is want honored.
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And they're upset if they're not.
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I'll tell you one, I'm getting wound up.
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Then I really will let you go, believe it or not.
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I was doing what what what Noah has seen, the first one that we ever did, and a preacher, who I won't, I really won't say his name, because you would know who it is.
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He said, I'm coming on Tuesday.
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I wrote, Great.
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He wasn't preaching.
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Lots of people are coming.
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I'm coming on Tuesday.
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Glad to hear it.
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So then he writes back, What time should I arrive?
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I said, Service star.
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I wrote back, service starts at seven, arrive whenever you want.
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No, I what I mean is um, where should I sit?
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Oh, and then he wrote, where should I sit?
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I wrote, any seat that's open is yours.
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We don't have reserve seating at our church.
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Actually, we do the front row and the second row, because if you don't do that, the devil puts some lunatic to ruin the whole service.
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So we just have it reserved for mentally stable people.
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You're welcome to come to our church demon-possessed.
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We just don't want you in front of the camera until the demons come out.
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You don't need somebody prominently on the do it over there.
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So um, you know, then then I started realizing what he was driving at.
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So then he actually comes out, he calls me.
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Listen, what I'm trying to say is, I'm a high-profile minister, which you know that at that point had to choke vomit back.
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I'm a high-profile minister, and um sometimes it can disrupt the service when I come in because everyone sees me.
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I said, I said to him, now when you go down that route, I'll make you sorry.
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I said, Um, don't worry about it.
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Everybody that's preaching there is ten times more well known than you.
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Nobody will even notice.
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And then he said, Can I get back to have them lay hands on me before they leave?
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I said, probably not.
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I said, Paul and I'm gonna see preached the other night, and when he closed, he laid hands on me.
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And when I woke up, I was one of about nine people left in the building with the floodlights on.
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So who knows how the service is gonna end?
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Come to the service or don't come to the service.
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It's not about you.
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Have you become so big that you just can't come to church?
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I appreciate there being armor bears, but I've as I've told the lesson I'm your armor bear, so you're gonna be disappointed.
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I don't have any armor, just a Bible.
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And I'll carry this.
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If I start becoming that soft that I can't carry this four-pound Bible, I'm in trouble.
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Be a servant of people.
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I'll give you an example of how much it'll blow people away.
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I was on African television prime time for four days a week, and it was a channel that literally had millions of viewers, not like American ones that tell you they have million millions of viewers, but they don't.
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So I I would have, and I still have on Instagram, someone will message me a lot of times from Africa and say, My mom has breast cancer.
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Could you pray for?
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Thinking I'm gonna write like yes or not at all, or they think, can you tell Jonathan, thinking I don't even run my own account?
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I'll pop on the direct message and hit the FaceTime button.
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And they'll answer and go like this.
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Yeah, Jonathan! Yeah.
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Oh my! I got your message that your mom has breast cancer.
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Is she in the room with you?
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Yeah, put her on with you.
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Hello, Gladys.
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Lift your hands.
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I want to pray against that breast cancer in Jesus' name.
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Pray.
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And then when you get done praying, they're crying both from the and you called.
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Yeah.
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Why can't I call people?
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Why can't why don't lose touch with people?
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Jesus was around people.
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Somebody was telling me in Africa, or that was in Africa, that he was driving T.L.
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Osborne, who had just had a 400,000-person crusade met with the president, and they drove past a crippled in the mud with his legs wrapped, and uh because they just scoot on the ground, and he said, pull the car over.
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And he got out of the car and got down in the mud with the guy and put his arms around him and hugged him and held his head and prayed for him for a while.
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I parked the car.
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He was with him for about 10 or 12 minutes.
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Got in the dirt with a beggar.
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Yeah, that's a guy that God used to shake the world.
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So, you can't do that every day.
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I don't do it.
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I've never got in the mud with anybody.
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I'm getting the mud with my daughter.
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I like being indoors where it's clean.
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So I'm not telling you, you got, but I am telling you, if you're not careful as a minister, you're gonna lose touch with people and you're gonna become a pompous jerk that your illustrations don't even help anybody.
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When I was at the country club the other day, um, the electric golf cart was broken, so I was walking.
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People just got there with Chick-fil-A still on their fingers, swapping their kids in the backseat for fighting, and you don't know where people are at anymore.
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Some ministers, every conference is planned around the husband's birthday, the wife's birthday, there.
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Hey, how many know it's pastor's birthday?
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We're gonna take an offering.
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We wanted to surprise him.
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He's still surprised 23 years in a row.
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You know who I saw that never does that?
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Bishop David Oyadepo, that has the largest church in the world.
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There's nothing ever collected for him, ever.
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And you start seeing something.
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If you'll did anybody see when I was given a house, it's worth almost$900,000 in Pittsburgh, which is a good sized house.
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And it was given to me for free.
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How many pastor appreciation offerings would you have to take to do that?
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Two years worth.
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It still wouldn't be enough.
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And I told Adolis, when Adonis said, you know, Camila's 12 now, I'd like her to have her own home before she moves out.
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I said, let's keep building homes for God.
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And when God feels like we're underhoused, he can build one for me.
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And I didn't say that like we'll never have a house.
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I said it knowing there's no chance I'm gonna build homes for God and him gonna leave me in an apartment.
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And sure enough, if you'll wait, God will honor you more than any man would ever honor you.
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And nothing you ever do for the Lord is useless.
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Can you say amen?
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Let me tell you what I heard Pastor Ataboye say.
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Pastor Enoch Ataboye, that's head of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, at their main meeting, they have 3.5 million people come.
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The building's two miles long by two miles wide.
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He said, if I mention when I'm preaching a type of shoe that I like and tell the size, you won't be able to buy that size shoe in Nigeria for at least 90 days.
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Every person, you know, 19,000 churches, they'd they'd they'd buy, oh, he likes uh Versace shoes.
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And he thinks a size nine and a half.
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I'm gonna buy him a pair.
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He said it would sell out in the whole country.
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He said, which is why you never hear me make comments about what car I like, what shoe.
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See, that's somebody God can trust.
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That they're not gonna get in the pulpit and drop hints so people can get them stuff.
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So it's like it swung both ways.
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When my dad was starting out, ministers were dishonored.
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Now, ministers are like many dictators that help themselves to the church money, expect the people to give them personal money, help themselves to the women because they think they're in charge of the place.
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Always remember it's God's house, and you're a servant in God's house, and God will richly bless you.
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Give the Lord a great hand clap one more time.
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